Former minister Chris Philp praises Conservatives for their record on housing and urges the Labour government to build new houses ''the right way''. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well, of course, the last government delivered two and a half million new homes, which was
00:05a good achievement. And we do need to build more housing, but it needs to be done in the
00:09right way. That means prioritising building on ground field land. It means building tall
00:15in city centres. It means considering new towns outside of the green belt. What they're
00:20planning to do is rip up green belt protections, which are really important elements of our
00:25planning system that protect that green lung around cities. And they're planning to ride
00:31roughshod over democratically elected local councils by taking decisions away from them
00:39and making them in central government instead.