The government’s main announcement today is actually from March. Recess has only just started and Labour is already whipping the dead horse…
Compare today’s government press release trumpeted up by Heidi Alexander on the morning round: “First-time buyers to benefit from 40,000 new homes on brownfield railway land” with one from March: “Network Rail property company set to unlock up to 40,000 new homes over the next decade.” Over a decade it will be 4,000 homes per year. A laughable amount anyway, did someone say zombie government?
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”