The core of his plan is that councils will be forced to build. We support the Chancellor’s end and salute his courage. But the means look dicey.
Res Publica proposes a radical programme of local empowerment and coordination to win consent for the new building this country needs.
On polling day, we honour the unknown heroes of this government – the Special Advisers, without whom little of what has been done would have been done.
There is more to do – building more houses, giving more power to local communities and helping people onto the housing ladder.
They should have to show that changes to the civil service’s departmental structures serve the public interest rather than party political or personnel management goals.
Registering pubs as being of community value will protect them from change of use.
It would bring coherence and skill to project implementation and management – and there are plenty of others to be abolished or amalgamated.