Extract from urgent question (Commons) on Towns Fund - Nov 18
Thursday, 19 November 2020 08:30
The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local
Government (Robert Jenrick):...The message from the Labour party is
very clear today: while we want to level up, it wants to score
pointless political points. The shadow Secretary of State cannot
talk about local government because his own Labour council has gone
bankrupt with debts of £1.5 billion. He cannot talk about
communities, because the committee on antisemitism has called him
out, along with the majority of the members of the...Request free trial
The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local
Government ():...The message from the Labour party is very clear
today: while we want to level up, it wants to score pointless
political points. The shadow Secretary of State cannot talk about
local government because his own Labour council has gone bankrupt
with debts of £1.5 billion. He cannot talk about communities,
because the committee on antisemitism has called him out,
along with the majority of the members of the community team on the
Labour Front Bench, for antisemitic
incidents—quite how he can stay in position after that, I do not
know. He cannot talk about housing because he has said that his
team has no housing policies, and it will be years before he
produces any. He cannot talk about housing because we are building
more homes than any Government have done for the past 30 years. We
will keep on building homes, we will keep on levelling up, and we
will keep on investing in the communities that need it...
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