JAVID WASN’T SO HOUSE-PROUD

HOUSING and Local Government Secretary Sajid Javid launched a new initiative to stimulate house building in the Tory shires last week — and he didn’t pull his punches.

‘we’ve got a housing crisis. we’ve got no time for anyone who is just anti-development for the sake of it. we need to change our attitude,’ he declared.

Can this be the same Javid who, as a backbench MP in June 2016, slammed his local Bromsgrove council over plans for 1,300 homes on the Green Belt: ‘while I understand this land was designated for housing, there is significant concern about the implications such a large- scale development would have on local infrastructure, facilities and environment.’

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