[Politics] Are Labour going to turn this country around?

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The number of new homes in England continued to fall during the first six months that Labour was in power, analysis by BBC Verify suggests.

The BBC's housing tracker shows every region of England had a year-on-year fall in new homes in the second half of 2024.

About 107,000 new homes were recorded since last July's election, down 10% on the same six months a year earlier.

I have a friend who works for a national housebuilder, nothing is selling and housebuilders are trying to shift sites on with permission rather than build anything out.

The government need to make people have more faith in the economy and like they have more money in their pockets before that trend will shift.

 

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I have a friend who works for a national housebuilder, nothing is selling and housebuilders are trying to shift sites on with permission rather than build anything out.

The government need to make people have more faith in the economy and like they have more money in their pockets before that trend will shift.

Plus a real drop in interest rates.