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A key pledge in the Labour manifesto, the fund was launched by the new chancellor, Rachel Reeves

Chancellor says government aims to attract billions of pounds of private cash for big infrastructure projects

The recent UK general election has seen an unprecedented increase in female representation, with 263 women elected as Members of Parliament, marking a historic 40% of the total seats.

Call comes after Rachel Reeves announced new approach to planning to meet ambitious goal on home building

Labour has a historic opportunity to combat regional inequality. Empowering regional mayors is the place to start, says Michael Heseltine, a former Conservative deputy prime minister

They stressed the ‘desperate need to build more homes’ to ease the capital’s housing crisis

There’s been an energy to Starmer’s slumber and beneath the chancellor’s surface dullness there lies hope

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Are their outfits too expensive? Do they wield some undeclared influence? Labour women are under attack – and it feels just like the 1950s, says Zoe Williams

Change begins now, as the Prime Minister told his party after the election, and change is very much on the agenda in housing. The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is talking about imposing mandatory housing targets on councils. The recent changes to planning laws whereby new developments could be challenged if they…

The new Labour government has re-affirmed its promise to ban section 21 and committed to building 1.5 million new homes