Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE

KEIR STARMER has pledged to “bulldoze” opposition to his target for the next Labour government to build 1.5 million homes in its first five years in power.
He says it will also create five post-1945-style new towns. Angela Raynor has talked about the importance of social housing in her life and her intention to reform private renting, including abolishing “no-fault” evictions.
At least the Labour Party has finally recognised the political importance of housing. The problem is we’ve heard most of it before: tried and failed policies that don’t go to the root of the problem and could make a bad situation worse.

GLYN ROBBINS celebrates how tenant-led campaigning forced the government to drop Pay to Stay, fixed-term tenancies and council home sell-offs under Cameron — but warns that Labour’s faith in private developers will require renewed resistance


