Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has today told the Labour party conference in Brighton that a Labour government would build 1 million affordable homes.
He told the conference: “We’ll cap rents and build a million new genuinely affordable homes, so young people in particular aren’t pouring away thousands of pounds from their wages to rip-off landlords.”
He said: “When they ask you some time in the future: ‘where were you when people were left to sleep on our streets?’ I want you all to be able to say: ‘I built the homes and public services our people needed.’”
