A new report from the Centre for Policy Studies torches Sadiq Khan’s record on housebuilding in London. In 2024–25, just 4,170 homes were built across the capital – a pitiful 5% of his own 88,000-home target. Embarrassing…
Even worse, 80% of the homes completed last year were approved under Boris Johnson’s 2016 London Plan, while only 20% came from Khan’s 2021 blueprint. Despite the Mayor’s endless boasts about being committed to building a “better, fairer London for everyone,” it’s still Boris’ policies doing the heavy lifting on housing…
The report – “The City That Doesn’t Build” by Ben Hopkinson – blames a suffocating regulatory environment that’s driven costs so high that “even if the land is provided for free, developments in half of London are unviable.” Hopkinson also notes that despite London having the fewest homes per capita of any British region, it’s building at less than a quarter of the rate of the rest of England. Read the report in full below:
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”