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Ross Lydall

OPINION - Sadiq Khan's plan to build on London's greenbelt is a total misdirection from the real story

Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan says his skills bootcamps will help 'fast-track Londoners into good jobs' - (PA)

London’s housing crisis: three words that never seem to go away. Sir Sadiq Khan has stepped back into the breach by signalling a willingness to allow developers to build on pockets of Green Belt land.

In what has been described (by his own spin doctors) as a “radical change of approach”, the mayor wants to be “honest with Londoners” that merely building on “brown field” land won’t be enough to solve the housing crisis.

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