Former housing secretary Sajid Javid has hit out at Conservative colleagues supporting backbench legislation designed to scrap housing targets and end the requirement for councils to show a five-year supply of housing land.

Javid wrote in the Sunday Times that approving the measures, contained in rebel amendments to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, would “put meaningful [housing] policy into reverse” and represent “a colossal failure of political leadership”.

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