Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer went head-to-head in the Commons this lunchtime over housebuilding, as the Labour leader accused the PM of giving into his backbenchers over housing targets and is on track to miss his 300,000 a year target.
Rishi Sunak tore Labour apart, however, accusing the party of being riddled with division on the issue of housing.
He pointed out that Lisa Nandy had said “communities should have control”, but Sir Keir contradicted her by saying “we should bring targets back and disempower local people”.
“I do want to give him some advice: it’s not local people that are the problem, it’s the Labour party policy”.
Sir Keir retorted that “far from delivering” since Rishi Sunak “crumbled to his backbenchers and scrapped mandatory targets, housebuilding has collapsed”.
