“The Tories have form at making up stories and telling mistruths. This is one of this that can be filed under fiction.”
The Shadow Local Government Secretary won’t say if a Labour council in Cumbria was right or wrong to give approval to such a development.
…and therefore, not bringing a no confidence motion to the House.
The campaign against him is driven by the knowledge that May agrees with his views on design – and fear that the Government will act on them.
The Shadow HCLG Secretary says that Corbyn has made the principle very clear already.
The Shadow HCLG Secretary wants a transitional period, as the Government does, but says that it shouldn’t “be rushed to a March 2019 deadline”.
Labour enjoyed making him sound like a Tory. But unlike them, he grasps that there can be no return to a pre-austerity past.