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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

Labour's 1.5m new homes goal thrown into doubt as minister admits we don't have enough workers to build them

Labour’s flagship pledge of 1.5 million new homes this Parliament was thrown into doubt as a minister admitted to a shortage of workers to build them.

Skills minister Baroness Smith of Malvern was frank about the need to train up more construction workers to achieve the challenging target to tackle the housing crisis in London and other parts of Britain..

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