SIR Keir Starmer today vowed to build a “new generation” of 60’s style new towns like Milton Keynes to finally end Britain’s housing crisis.
In his big Labour Party conference speech, Sir Keir warned any failure to build up the country would make home ownership a “luxury for the few, not the privilege of the many”.
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He said: “What is broken can be repaired, what is ruined can be rebuilt.”
“Sometimes the old Labour ideas are right for new times.
“So where there are good jobs, where there is good infrastructure, where there is good land for affordable homes, then we will get shovels in the ground, cranes in the sky, and build the next generation of Labour new towns.”
The Labour leader pledged his party will “protect our green spaces” and “fight for our environment”.
But in a jab at NIMBY MPs, he added that where space is free and suitable, beautiful Georgian style towns will be built from the ground up.
“We created the national parks, created the green belt in the first place,” Sir Keir said.
“I grew up in Surrey – but where there are clearly ridiculous uses of the green belt: disused car parks, dreary wasteland.
“It’s not a green belt, it’s a grey belt – sometimes within a city’s boundary – and this cannot be justified as a reason to hold our future back.
“We will take this fight on.
“That’s a Britain built to last.”
Sir Keir promised to usher in a blitz of planning reforms to boost the building of bur and rent homes.
And he promised to instant fast track approval systems for high density housing on urban brownfield sites.
Before announcing his major plan for housing the Labour leader was showered in GLITTER during a dramatic stage invasion.
A yob activist was bundled away by security after sprinting onto the platform where the party leader was poised to start his big speech.
A 28-year-old man from Surrey was later arrested on suspicion of assault, breach of the peace and causing public nuisance.
Gasps went up in the Liverpool hall as the thug ambushed Sir Keir within moments of him walking on to deliver the keynote address.
Sir Keir defiantly brushed off the stunt and pressed on without his jacket – although sparkly flecks still covered his white shirt.
