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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

James Cleverly takes immediate swipe at Sadiq Khan on London housing crisis on return to Tory frontbench

New shadow Cabinet member Sir James Cleverly took an immediate swipe at Sir Sadiq Khan accusing him of being “asleep at the wheel” over tackling London’s housing crisis.

Less than 24 hours after being appointed to Kemi Badenoch’s top team, Sir James tore into the Government for a “catastrophic” failure on its housing promise to build 1.5 million new homes over five years.

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