Rishi Sunak could be forced to compromise with rebel MPs over the scrapping of housing targets to avoid relying on Labour votes to pass the levelling up bill.
It comes as the former cabinet minister Simon Clarke attempted to amend the same bill to allow new onshore windfarms, on which he hopes to attract Conservative and Labour support. Onshore wind was to be relaxed under Liz Truss but Sunak’s government has kept the ban.
