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Brown ‘will bring in local authorities on housing’
Gordon Brown has asserted his commitment to closely involving local authorities in future housing policy planning.
Making his Labour Party leadership acceptance speech on Sunday, Mr Brown identified housing as one of the key priorities in the year ahead.
"Because we need to build new homes not just to own but to rent, we will bring together the private sector, housing associations and local authorities to renew the promise of social housing for our communities," he asserted.
Furthermore, he stated that the housing minister will be attending Cabinet under his premiership and that they will be tasked with leading the debate on housing policy.
Finally, he touched on the relationship between new home building and environmental policy, stating that Labour would demonstrate that new housing could work in harmony with ecological concerns.
Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrat representative for education, Sarah Teather, has called on Mr Brown to act swiftly to tackle social mobility problems, better targeting help for the disadvantaged by focusing on investment in early years education.
