It was clear that approach had been abandoned this week when Mr Gove set out a new vision focused instead on cities, including a significant expansion of Cambridge - a scheme immediately condemned by the area's Conservative MP. The party's one serious attempt at meeting it with ambitious planning reforms and country-wide targets was met with a furious wave of opposition from its own MPs and council leaders, many determined to protect the picturesque Tory shires. Their 300,000 homes a year pledge, established in 2017, has been often ignored and at times watered down, with Housing Secretary Michael Gove last year downgrading it to "advisory". Which is presumably why Rishi Sunak popped up on a London building site today to trash Sadiq Khan's housebuilding record in the capital.įocusing on the Labour mayor enables the PM to avoid his own party's record which, assessed against almost any metric, is a disappointing one. Less than a week later, it appears the prime minister has wasted no time in applying what many in his party think could be the strategy that enables them to cling on to power at the next election. ![]() Tory MPs interviewed in the early hours said it was about showing what Labour in power was really like and that single issues, like ULEZ (the ultra low emissions zone) could be weaponised to win votes. ![]() In the aftermath of the Conservatives' narrow win at the recent Uxbridge by-election, it was clear they had taken two key lessons from the result.
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