Keir Starmer yesterday accused Rishi Sunak of “killing the dream of home ownership for a generation” as he used his last prime ministers’ question time before today’s local elections to attack the government’s decision to water down local housebuilding targets.

The Labour leader said the government’s decision, taken before Christmas, to propose changes to planning policy following a backbench Tory rebellion on so-called mandatory local housing numbers, amounted to “kicking them [homebuyers] when they are down”.

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