My colleagues and I at Habinteg Housing Association were pleased to hear Sir Keir Starmer’s recent pledge to create a ‘grey belt’ to free up disused car parks and brownfield sites of the green belt, opening up land to build up to half a million homes.

Labour’s five ‘golden rules’ – including ensuring at least 50 per cent of homes built are classed as affordable, boosting infrastructure and improving green spaces - add to the pledges Labour made last year to build 1.5 million new homes.