Housing secretary promises to ‘go further’ on building homes

By Joey Gardiner2022-10-06T06:00:00

Simon Clarke promises housing plan within weeks but says he wont ‘impose cardboard boxes across our shires’

Housing secretary Simon Clarke has pledged to “go further” to build the homes needed in the UK, using his set-piece party conference speech to help get people onto the housing ladder.

But the newly appointed secretary of state announced no new initiatives designed to meet that ambition, promising instead to unveil more detail on the government’s housing strategy in the “coming weeks”.

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