| Topic: | Re:No newts is good newts? | |
| Posted by: | Sam Hearn | |
| Date/Time: | 13/12/24 13:05:00 |
| Sky News presenter Trevor Phillips pointed out that while Rayner wants to add homes for 4.3 million people, Labour is also encouraging 2.5 million other people to the UK over the same period via immigration. He said: “Are you content that more than five out of seven homes will go to immigrants?” “That’s not the truth. That’s not the reality,” she replied. But the presenter asked where this new influx of people are supposed to live. Rayner said: “There’s plenty of housing in the UK, but the houses –” Phillips hit back: “Hang on! You can’t on one hand say, ‘let’s build 1.5m houses’ and then say ‘there’s plenty of housing already’.” She replied: “There is plenty of housing Trevor, but there’s not enough for the people who desperately need it. “So the homes, especially under our social affordable housing, they will be there for people who desperately need them.” He said: “This doesn’t quite make sense. You start the interview by telling me there’s a housing crisis. “When I remind you that you have said yourself as a government we need 2.5 million migrants – some of them by the way are going to build this new housing – suddenly, there’s a lot of housing. “Where are these people going to go?” |