Michael Gove has recommitted the government to its manifesto pledge to build 300,000 homes-a-year following uncertainty over the target given his predecessor’s pledge to abolish “top down” housing numbers.

The new housing secretary yesterday answered “yes” when asked by BBC journalist Laura Kuenssberg whether the pledge to build 300,000 houses each year in England, made in the 2019 election-winning Conservative manifesto, remained the government’s target.

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