Property News · February 22, 2020

Rebecca Long-Bailey challenges rivals on housing as Labour race gets personal


Leadership hopeful urges Nandy and Starmer to pledge 100,000 council homes a yearRebecca Long-Bailey has publicly called on her rivals in the Labour leadership race to support a pledge to build more council homes, as the battle to succeed Jeremy Corbyn began to take on a more personal tone in the run-up to the vote.With members’ ballots due to start arriving on Monday, Long-Bailey used a speech in Peterborough to argue that a promise to build at least 100,000 local authority homes for social rent per year would help “lay the foundations of aspirational socialism”. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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