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COUNCILS should ditch private contractors on housing developments and employ in-house teams instead, John McDonnell said yesterday.
Speaking at construction union Ucatt’s conference, the shadow chancellor called for a mass programme of building council homes to address the housing crisis and create jobs.
Praising the quality of council houses built during the post-war period, Mr McDonnell said: “The reason those properties were well-built is that they were built using direct labour. And we want to go back to direct labour.”
Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
