Sir Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves at the Rolls-Royce factory this year[/caption]
The world’s biggest companies agree with us.
That’s why this week they’ve backed Britain to the tune of £63billion.
There’s even more today.
Another huge investment of over half a billion pounds, with three big UK investment managers ploughing funding for housing into our communities alongside government backing.
Water scarcity is stopping towns from expanding because we haven’t built a reservoir for 30 years.
And if you are a business applying for a grid connection today, you will have to wait until the late 2030s.
Growth is number one priority
Growth is our number one priority. It’s time to remove the barriers that prevent this country from building and stop our economy from growing.
Too often, plans are stuck in a backlog of bureaucracy.
That is why we are reforming planning regulations so we can build more quickly and for a better price.
We won’t allow a vocal minority, opposed to development of any kind, to veto the aspiration of a generation.
We are empowering expert planning officers to boost building, not NIMBYs who stifle growth.
That’s the kind of radical change this country needs and is essential if we are to build the 1.5million new homes we have promised by the end of this Parliament.
The Tories left our infrastructure to rot. They let the housing crisis spiral out of control. Roads full of potholes. Our railways a mess. Schools and hospitals literally crumbling