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?
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”