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| General election: Corbyn to make big housing pledge as Tories set low spending bar – live | General election: Corbyn to make big housing pledge as Tories set low spending bar – live |
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| A day after Boris Johnson launched Tory manifesto, Labour leader will announce big shift in housing plan | A day after Boris Johnson launched Tory manifesto, Labour leader will announce big shift in housing plan |
| There’s further reaction to Labour’s proposals, as outlined by the party’s shadow housing minister John Healey earlier. | |
| Polly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, said: | |
| However, the Residential Landlords Association has claimed Labour’s plans would cause “a serious rental housing crisis”. | |
| David Smith, policy director for the landlords’ organisation, said: | |
| Meanwhile, the Residential Landlords Association has welcomed the Conservative party’s housing policy proposals. | |
| Its policy director David Smith said: | |
| You can read more on the Tories’ policies here: | |
| People buying fridge freezers have greater consumer rights than private renters, Labour’s shadow housing secretary John Healey has said as he promises more rights for renters. | |
| The party is proposing independent yearly checks on properties, inspecting things like gas, electricity and damp, along with the introduction of rent increases capped at inflation as part of a charter of rights for private renters | |
| The Residential Landlords Association have warned it could drive their members out of the business, but Healey said the purpose of the reforms and introduction of “tougher sanctions” was to drive bad landlords out of the business. | |
| He told BBC Breakfast: | |
| Questioned over whether Labour would overcomplicate the market, Healey said: | |
| Healey added that Labour’s plans to compensate millions of women who lost out on years of state pensions would be a “one-off compensation payment” paid for from government contingency funds. | |
| “This rights a historic injustice,” he said. “They had been planning for retirement and had it disrupted at no notice.” | |
| The director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies has criticised Labour’s promise to compensate more than three million women who lost out on years of state pension payments when their retirement age was raised after the party announced the plan late on Saturday. | The director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies has criticised Labour’s promise to compensate more than three million women who lost out on years of state pension payments when their retirement age was raised after the party announced the plan late on Saturday. |
| Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, Paul Johnson said the policy’s estimated cost of £58bn is “a very, very large sum of money indeed” and claimed Labour would need higher tax rises than those already slated to cover it. | Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, Paul Johnson said the policy’s estimated cost of £58bn is “a very, very large sum of money indeed” and claimed Labour would need higher tax rises than those already slated to cover it. |
| Larry Elliott has this assessment of the Conservative manifesto. | Larry Elliott has this assessment of the Conservative manifesto. |
| Take no chances. Make no mistakes. Maintain strict message discipline. Like a football team two up with 20 minutes to play, the Conservatives think the only way they can lose the election is if they throw it away. | Take no chances. Make no mistakes. Maintain strict message discipline. Like a football team two up with 20 minutes to play, the Conservatives think the only way they can lose the election is if they throw it away. |
| The contrast between the manifesto launched by Boris Johnson and Labour’s last week was marked. Behind in the polls and with only three weeks to go before election day, Jeremy Corbyn has gambled that voters are ready for radicalism. In sporting terms, he has thrown on three strikers as subs and sent his centre half up from the back in the hope of getting back in the game. | The contrast between the manifesto launched by Boris Johnson and Labour’s last week was marked. Behind in the polls and with only three weeks to go before election day, Jeremy Corbyn has gambled that voters are ready for radicalism. In sporting terms, he has thrown on three strikers as subs and sent his centre half up from the back in the hope of getting back in the game. |
| The prime minister, by contrast, is seeking to run down the clock until 12 December, relying on the fact that his “get Brexit done” line has cut through. Things started to go pear-shaped for Theresa May in 2017 when her manifesto plans for social care were dubbed a “dementia tax”. This time, the Conservatives have said the answer is to build a long-term, cross-party consensus. | The prime minister, by contrast, is seeking to run down the clock until 12 December, relying on the fact that his “get Brexit done” line has cut through. Things started to go pear-shaped for Theresa May in 2017 when her manifesto plans for social care were dubbed a “dementia tax”. This time, the Conservatives have said the answer is to build a long-term, cross-party consensus. |
| Johnson’s pitch throughout the campaign has been that Britain’s departure from the EU will unleash a wave of pent-up investment and, by ending the uncertainty, lead to faster economic growth. | Johnson’s pitch throughout the campaign has been that Britain’s departure from the EU will unleash a wave of pent-up investment and, by ending the uncertainty, lead to faster economic growth. |
| But there is no guarantee that this will happen, particularly since even if Brexit does go ahead on 31 January, the rest of 2020 will be spent trying to conclude a trade deal with the EU before the transition period ends. The forecasts for growth and borrowing that will be provided by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility for the budget that will take place once the election is over will not make pretty reading. | But there is no guarantee that this will happen, particularly since even if Brexit does go ahead on 31 January, the rest of 2020 will be spent trying to conclude a trade deal with the EU before the transition period ends. The forecasts for growth and borrowing that will be provided by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility for the budget that will take place once the election is over will not make pretty reading. |
| So while Johnson was upbeat at the manifesto launch, the document itself was a much more cautious affair. | So while Johnson was upbeat at the manifesto launch, the document itself was a much more cautious affair. |
| The papers on the Tory manifesto | The papers on the Tory manifesto |
| Jeremy Corbyn will be in the East Midlands today talking about the housing crisis, as Labour prepares to announce a plan to compel property developers to meet the costs of building at least 50,000 discounted homes as part of a package of measures to help renters and first-time buyers. | Jeremy Corbyn will be in the East Midlands today talking about the housing crisis, as Labour prepares to announce a plan to compel property developers to meet the costs of building at least 50,000 discounted homes as part of a package of measures to help renters and first-time buyers. |
| The shadow housing secretary, John Healey, has drawn up proposals to allow local authorities to use the planning process to force developers to build a certain number of properties to be earmarked for local first-time buyers. | The shadow housing secretary, John Healey, has drawn up proposals to allow local authorities to use the planning process to force developers to build a certain number of properties to be earmarked for local first-time buyers. |
| These would be sold at a discount of up to 50% on the local market rate, with the size of the reduction dependent on the gap between earnings and house prices in the local area – and the local authority could choose to target them at key workers such as nurses or teachers. | These would be sold at a discount of up to 50% on the local market rate, with the size of the reduction dependent on the gap between earnings and house prices in the local area – and the local authority could choose to target them at key workers such as nurses or teachers. |
| Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the day’s politics news. | Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the day’s politics news. |
| Yesterday the Tories launched their election manifesto. You’d be forgiven for having missed it, indeed that might have been the point, coming out, as it did, on a Sunday afternoon, but we’ve got a full wrap of what it contained and reaction to it. | Yesterday the Tories launched their election manifesto. You’d be forgiven for having missed it, indeed that might have been the point, coming out, as it did, on a Sunday afternoon, but we’ve got a full wrap of what it contained and reaction to it. |
| John Crace suggests the Conservatives may have been employing a “take out the trash day” strategy, by launching their manifesto on a Sunday, “a day when almost everyone would either be watching football, Sir David Attenborough or Countryfile”. Crace writes the Tories managed to deliver “a manifesto with almost nothing in it”. | John Crace suggests the Conservatives may have been employing a “take out the trash day” strategy, by launching their manifesto on a Sunday, “a day when almost everyone would either be watching football, Sir David Attenborough or Countryfile”. Crace writes the Tories managed to deliver “a manifesto with almost nothing in it”. |
| The plan is conspicuous for its lack of eye-catching policies, with Larry Elliott writing that Johnson is “seeking to run down the clock” with a “cautious, tepid manifesto”. One thing it does tell us is the stark difference between the public spending plans outlined by the two parties, with Johnson promising to fork out £2.9bn more a year against the £83bn outlined by Jeremy Corbyn. Among the headline promises is that the Conservatives would deliver 50,000 nurses, a line that we have factchecked and found somewhat wanting. | The plan is conspicuous for its lack of eye-catching policies, with Larry Elliott writing that Johnson is “seeking to run down the clock” with a “cautious, tepid manifesto”. One thing it does tell us is the stark difference between the public spending plans outlined by the two parties, with Johnson promising to fork out £2.9bn more a year against the £83bn outlined by Jeremy Corbyn. Among the headline promises is that the Conservatives would deliver 50,000 nurses, a line that we have factchecked and found somewhat wanting. |