Workers’ rights: New agency to issue businesses with large fines September 2, 2024 Businesses face paying large fines from a newly formed agency if they are found to have breached Labour’s proposed workers’ rights laws. As Parliament returns this week, ministers are reportedly weighing up the practicalities of the far-reaching package that includes controversial reforms like a ban on “exploitative” zero hours contracts, granting day-one rights after probation, [...]
Labour’s mutant algorithm will put houses in places that need them least August 5, 2024 Why has Labour reduced building targets in areas where the housing crisis is most acute – like London – while blanketing more affordable places, like Burnley, with new development? It all comes down to the algorithm, explains Josh Coupland On Tuesday, newly crowned yimby queen, Angela Rayner announced a raft of measures to get Britain [...]
Rayner must defy her own backbenchers and build, baby, build July 31, 2024 Angela Rayner has clearly been reading City A.M.. In a statement to the House of Commons yesterday the housing secretary outlined plans to build 370,000 homes a year, in a clear victory for our Build, Baby, Build campaign. The challenge now is to realise that ambition in bricks and mortar. It is encouraging, then, that [...]
Move to cut London’s housebuilding target raises eyebrows July 30, 2024 Angela Rayner’s decision to cut London’s housing target has raised some eyebrows given the severe housing crisis facing Londoners. In a speech in the House of Commons this afternoon, the deputy Prime Minister confirmed that mandatory housing targets would be reinstated for local authorities among a swathe of other planning changes. But the new target [...]
UK restores housebuilding targets and sets out green belt review in planning push July 30, 2024 Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves’ Labour government has unveiled a series of reforms to the planning system, including a review of the green belt, to help address “the most acute housing crisis in living memory.” Under new policies confirmed today, local authorities will again be given mandatory housing targets to help “pave the way” to [...]
Getting ‘everyone in the room’ won’t cut it, Labour must be ready to cause upset July 23, 2024 To govern as an ‘adult’, Labour must confront the hard decisions now and be ready to cause some controversy, writes James Nation.
How realistic is Labour’s plan to reform the planning system? July 9, 2024 Labour has promised to move fast and break things to get Britain building again, but will their plan actually work?
Election 2024: Labour dodge calls for four-day working week June 30, 2024 The Labour Party is reportedly avoiding calls from unions to make a four-day work week an official policy.
Election 2024: Starmer and Reeves plan green belt house building blitz June 30, 2024 Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are planning a housebuilding blitz, including asking councils to review green belt land, in their first days in office.
Election 2024: Labour to create fair work watchdog, Angela Rayner says June 23, 2024 Labour is set to create an employment watchdog to enforce its workers rights reforms, Angela Rayner has said.