The government’s commitment to building 300,000 homes a year is likely to remain the key weapon in ministers’ armoury in the battle to solve the UK’s housing crisis, despite a key report recently claiming there was no shortage of housing in the country.

Last month the Tony Blair Institute published a paper, written by its executive director Iain Mulheirn, which claimed that increasing supply was not the answer to the country’s housing crisis.

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