A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Please read my column today in conjunction with Aditya's. The government pretends to be delivering housing to those who need it, but is in fact just appeasing the big corporations. Then it blames nature protections, and rips those down at their behest as well.
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Government admits that it's recent concessions to the Planning Bill were a legally tokenistic 'tactical retreat' to try to speed the bill through the Lords. Most importantly: killing snails won't make mortgages any more affordable for homebuyers. This is a false dichotomy by Rachel Reeves.