PM accused of being unable to stand up to Tory MPs as promise to build 300,000 new houses a year dropped
Keir Starmer has labelled Rishi Sunak “the blancmange prime minister” after mandatory housebuilding targets were dropped under pressure from Tory MPs, in another policy change forced on the government by backbenchers in recent weeks.
Again using prime minister’s questions to attack Sunak as weak and unable to stand up to his MPs, Starmer said the government could have pushed through its housing plans with Labour support, but instead scuppered hopes of boosting construction levels.
