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£4.8bn for Homes England to give out as loans for SME developers and housing associations and £39bn for social housebuilding, which, if topped up in years to come, could help ease the housing crisis... My analysis of today's spending review The i Paper inews.co.uk/news/labour-fu…

Great point - important analysis

I wrote this essay for the New Statesman about the collapse of the English Literature degree and the dawn of the post-literate society newstatesman.com/culture/books/…

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These charts effectively sum up Labour’s housing problem… Private housebuilding is constrained by higher costs and the simple fact large numbers of people cannot afford to buy. Yesterday’s AHP boost will help increase social & affordable housebuilding but it will take time…

New: US bosses at cladding firm which sold material for use on Grenfell knew it was unsafe and knew it was being sold for use on the tower, newly released emails reveal thetimes.com/uk/london/arti…

East Kilbride has huge potential, but we need to be honest about the challenges too. Pleased to contribute to this The i Paper piece on the town's past, present and what needs to come next inews.co.uk/news/inside-ea…

@victoria_spratt visits East Kilbride, the new town being knocked down and rebuilt Constructed in 1950, now there plans to demolish more than a third of its town centre to make way for new homes Read her full report: trib.al/VrGI3Ad

Labour want to build a ‘new generation’ of new towns. But how are the original post war new towns doing? I’ve been travelling the country to find out. Next stop: East Kilbride, in Scotland This place has a fascinating story to tell The i Paper inews.co.uk/news/inside-ea…

I wrote about abortion - which is still technically a criminal offence - and the two amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill being brought to change this (NC1 and NC20). While change *must* happen, access to abortion is too sensitive to risk; change must be handled with care.

Piece here for The New Statesman newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…

Hi SES Water, you are sending large bills to my deceased father's address despite the water being shut off - nobody seems to be able to help in your call centres...

Ahead of the vote on decriminalising abortion, this The i Paper from 2023 remains relevant. If you think abortion access ever stopped being a political issue in Britain, think again. inews.co.uk/opinion/decrim…

With the welfare reform bill expected this week, Vicky Spratt spoke to our frontline staff about how the housing benefit freeze is forcing people with disabilities to use PIP to cover rent. This isn't what PIP is meant for. bit.ly/4ebnFZ4

The biggest change in reproductive rights in Britain in half a century has just passed the Commons. MPs have voted 379-137 to decriminalise abortion, preventing women from being prosecuted for terminating a pregnancy after 24 weeks.

I wish people would read the detail: the framework of access to an abortion – including the need for two doctors’ signatures, and the time limits at which terminations can be carried out – will *remain the same* and doctors who act outside the law will still face the threat of

We're turning the tide on the housing crisis. Our new National Housing Bank will help deliver hundreds of thousands of new homes, helping a generation who’ve been left locked out. This is our Plan for Change in action - helping us to deliver 1.5 million homes this Parliament.

Abortion limits haven’t changed. Anyone tweeting that has misunderstood the substance of last night’s vote.

To accelerate housebuilding across England and support our ongoing efforts to reform the housing market, we are creating a new, permanent National Housing Bank.