Tory infighting as Villiers tables bid to scrap housing targets

theresa villiers

Co-author of 2019 Conservative manifesto brands attempt to cut target “selfish and wicked”

Conservative MP Theresa Villiers has, as promised, tabled amendments to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill that would see mandatory housing targets abolished.  

Her bid for the “prohibition of mandatory targets and abolition of [the] five-year land supply rule” is backed by 27 MPs, including well-known names such as Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Damian Green and Chris Grayling. 

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