The chancellor says Labour reforms will lead to house building reaching a 40-year high, according to the OBR. Rachel Reeves adds that changes to the national planning framework alone will help build more than 1.3m homes over the next five years, "taking us within touching distance of our manifesto pledge to build 1.5m homes in England in this Parliament". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00The OBR have concluded that our reforms will lead to house building reaching a 40-year
00:07high, 305,000 homes a year by the end of the forecast period, and changes to the national
00:16planning policy framework alone will help build over 1.3 million homes in the UK over
00:24the next five years, taking us within touching distance of delivering our manifesto promise
00:32to build 1.5 million homes in England in this Parliament. Homes promised by this Labour
00:38Government, homes built by this Labour Government, homes opposed by the parties opposite.