Labour plans to build 1.5m homes – will that help Britons struggling for good housing?

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Starmer vowed to ‘bulldoze through’ planning restrictions and experts say it will put money in people’s pockets

Labour appears poised to win a historic election victory on 4 July. In the series Life under Labour we look at Keir Starmer’s five key political missions. We ask what is at stake and whether he can deliver the change the country is crying out for.

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