The Labour Party has pledged to set up a “building works agency” to publicly fund and undertake urgent post-Grenfell fire safety work on housing blocks, and put in place a legal guarantee that leaseholders will not be asked to pick up the tab.b.

As expected, shadow housing secretary Lucy Powell used her Labour Party conference speech yesterday to launch plans to stop overseas buyers being able to buy up the majority of homes in a development “off-plan” before UK purchasers have had an opportunity.

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