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Housing secretary in talks with around 60 Conservative MPs who are opposed to plans for mandatory targets to build 300,000 homes a year

With the PM caving in on new homes, and Suella Braverman bunking off again, ministers showing leadership are hard to find

Twelve years of decaying public services mean any sensible conversation about much-needed new housing is impossible, says the Guardian columnist John Harris

Labour and Tories alike have lined up to demand the I'm A Celebrity finalist gets out of the ITV Jungle and back to work - but Theresa Villiers gushed he had shown 'incredible resilience and bravery' in an eyebrow-raising exchange

Rishi Sunak is rehearsing reasons for voters to choose his party again with MPs wavering over standing at the next election

’He won’t push through planning reform – instead he kills off the dream of home ownership’ Keir Starmer alleges

The Prime Minister’s plan to build 300,000 homes a year has reportedly been put on hold.

At least 47 Tory MPs led by ex-Cabinet minister Theresa Villiers had threatened to rebel against the government by backing an amendment to the Levelling Up bill that would end mandatory housebuilding targets

About 50 MPs sign amendment to scrap mandatory local housing targets for councils

One of the rebels insisted that the move was not about challenging the Prime Minister’s authority, but rather “speaking up for communities”.

Society, wrote Edmund Burke in Reflections on the Revolution in France, “is a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.” This was one of the founding principles of modern Conservatism — but…