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Theresa May speech - live updates: Prime Minister to deliver major address on housing market, urging property developers to 'do your duty to Britain' UK politics - live updates: Theresa May admits homelessness is a source of a 'national shame'
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Theresa May is expected to shift focus away from Brexit today as she prepares to deliver a speech on the state of the housing market in Britain. Theresa May has attempted to shift focus away from Brexit today as she delivered a speech on the state of the housing market in Britain.
She is set to announce plans to penalise property developers who do not build homes quickly enough, urging the to “do their duty to britain”.  She announced plans to penalise property developers who do not build homes quickly enough, urging the to “do their duty" to Britain. 
Her speech also comes after she expressed “deep concern” at Donald Trump’s decision to raise tariffs on the steel and aluminium during a call with the US President on Sunday afternoon. The PM also used her speech to address rising levels of homelessness in the UK, adding: "In 2018, in one of the world’s largest, strongest economies, nobody should be without a roof over their head.
Mr Trump has outlined plans to impose a 25 per cent tariff on steel imports and 10 per cent on aluminium. "This isn’t just a British problem – in recent years homelessness has risen across Europe – but it is source of national shame nonetheless."