Greens say Labour should focus more on building council homes and that new housing plan is flawed – UK politics live
by Andrew Sparrow from World news | The Guardian on (#6PKAA)
Rayner says housing target system will raise number of homes planned to 370,000 and confirmed targets will be mandatory
Balls, who, of course, is a former Labour cabinet minister, and a former shadow chancellor, questions whether Reeves is right to suggest that Jeremy Hunt is wholly to blame for the black hole. He says that other cabinet ministers and departments drew up the spending plans that she says were unfunded.
Reeves repeats the point she has been making all morning about how the public were misled. (See 8.06am.)
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