The housing industry and the wider construction sector gave a cautious thumbs-up to Boris Johnson’s Conservative party leadership victory and promptly presented the UK’s next prime minister with a “shopping list” of likely policy moves. 

With a nod to Johnson’s sideline career as a journalist Brian Berry, chief executive of the Federation of Master Builders, said: “Boris the builder must build columns instead of writing them if he is to fix the housing crisis and restore the hope of home ownership to a generation.

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