At a time when we need to be building more homes – safe, sustainable, and affordable ones – Labour’s policies are moving us backwards. In October 2024, the Autumn Statement delivered a staggering £3 billion cut to housing investment. That means fewer homes, longer waiting lists, and deeper generational inequality.
As a housing lawyer and a Conservative, I support the need for more homes and more stable households. That means we need to unlock development by providing: financial and planning certainty, infrastructure investment, and smart regulation. That’s how we deliver the homes families need – without concreting over the countryside or turning our cities, towns and suburbs into soulless high-rise wastelands.
Labour’s anti-private sector instincts, their ambivalence towards home ownership, their assault on landlords, and their muddled energy policies risk choking off supply and punishing those already struggling to buy a home.
Stability on housing brings so many other benefits, because people feel they have a stake in the place where they live. That’s why, as a Conservative, I want to see more people able to afford to buy a home. Where they can’t, I want them to be able to have a stable and secure affordable home, and I want them to be able to buy that home if their circumstances improve. Labour’s slashing of the affordable housing programme and brutal cuts to the Right to Buy will do nothing to help solve our housing crisis.