:00:00. > :00:18.Good evening from BBC London News, I'm Victoria Hollins.
:00:19. > :00:21.Labour looks set to encourage local authorities to begin a massive
:00:22. > :00:24.programme of council houses in the capital.
:00:25. > :00:27.The Sunday Politics heard how Labour looks likely to enable councils
:00:28. > :00:30.to borrow money to invest in council housing which hasn't been
:00:31. > :00:37.Mr and Mrs Parker applied to buy their house...
:00:38. > :00:39.Under the Thatcher government, there was the right
:00:40. > :00:46.Three decades on, it is about building more of them.
:00:47. > :00:50.We have seen more than twice as much council housing being built.
:00:51. > :00:54.I want a Labour government that builds council houses.
:00:55. > :00:57.Creating new council houses needs funding,
:00:58. > :00:59.but for the past 30 years, local authorities have been banned
:01:00. > :01:08.Today, a veteran London Labour figure signalled it could change.
:01:09. > :01:10.Will you be allowing authorities local councils
:01:11. > :01:17.We are in this period when we have yet to see the manifesto,
:01:18. > :01:21.but if you are saying 1 million homes in five years.
:01:22. > :01:24.Half of which will be council housing and that
:01:25. > :01:27.Labour have promised to build a million homes
:01:28. > :01:30.in the next five years, half of them council houses.
:01:31. > :01:41.They'd set up a new housing ministry and want to bring
:01:42. > :01:44.But critics say Labour cannot be trusted to borrow money
:01:45. > :01:47.This is where Labour gets into familiar problems.
:01:48. > :01:53.They have unfunded tax spending plans.
:01:54. > :01:56.The Tories are expected to stick with key parts of their recent
:01:57. > :01:58.housing White Paper, which pledges 250,000
:01:59. > :02:04.A so-called lifetime ISA to help first-time
:02:05. > :02:15.A clamp-down on letting agent fees and rogue landlords.
:02:16. > :02:20.The Liberal Democrats say they continued the Olympic precept,
:02:21. > :02:22.The Liberal Democrats say they'd continued the Olympic precept,
:02:23. > :02:25.the charge to Londoners which helped pay for the 2012 Games in order
:02:26. > :02:28.The Lib Dems have pledged to build 300,000 homes
:02:29. > :02:31.a year across the country, but also we have got to tackle
:02:32. > :02:33.the private rented sector, one in four Londoners rent privately.
:02:34. > :02:36.The government admits the housing market is broken but there is no
:02:37. > :02:38.agreement among the parties on how to fix it.
:02:39. > :02:48.And differences on how to tackle housing evident again today?
:02:49. > :02:54.Yes, indications today Labour would give back to local authorities, the
:02:55. > :02:57.responsibility for driving house-building in their area by
:02:58. > :03:01.allowing them to borrow money to build council houses. They could
:03:02. > :03:06.then be rented out to tenants at a much lower rate. The Lib Dems said
:03:07. > :03:09.they would support that policy. On the other hand, the Tory say it is
:03:10. > :03:13.not the right approach, for them it is effective management of the
:03:14. > :03:17.economy which creates growth and that would kick-start a process of
:03:18. > :03:22.house-building. Ukip said they are eyeing up Brownfield sites while
:03:23. > :03:30.sparing the green belt. As for the Green party, they say you need
:03:31. > :03:34.something like rent caps to tackle this crisis. We hope to get more
:03:35. > :03:37.information in the party manifestos in the coming week and Londoners can
:03:38. > :03:40.make up their own minds on what is a key issue for the city, Victoria.
:03:41. > :03:42.Thank you. Hundreds of people have marched
:03:43. > :03:45.through the streets of north London to highlight the problem of knife
:03:46. > :03:47.and gun crime. Among those attending the Enough
:03:48. > :03:50.is Enough march were mothers Ten people have been stabbed
:03:51. > :03:54.to death in London in just Tube passengers could face
:03:55. > :03:57.disruption at London Bridge station Members of the RMT union
:03:58. > :04:01.are protesting against The union say a staff member
:04:02. > :04:05.was sacked and two others were disciplined unfairly
:04:06. > :04:07.following an incident Underground bosses said
:04:08. > :04:11.the employee had demonstrated The protest ends at
:04:12. > :04:16.10pm tomorrow tonight. Let's have a look at the weather
:04:17. > :04:18.with Alina Jenkins. If it's rain you're after, there's
:04:19. > :04:24.not much of it in this forecast. Lots of cloud around tonight
:04:25. > :04:27.and that will keep temperatures up It looks like cloud will be the main
:04:28. > :04:31.feature of the forecast tomorrow, limited bright or sunny spells,
:04:32. > :04:34.a fairly cool, northerly wind, so underneath the cloud,
:04:35. > :04:36.temperatures will struggle to get But those values starting to rise
:04:37. > :04:41.next week, some sunshine on Tuesday and Wednesday,
:04:42. > :04:46.a chilly night, perhaps on Tuesday and Wednesday,
:04:47. > :04:48.a chilly nights, perhaps with a touch of frost and maybe
:04:49. > :04:51.some rain by Friday. We're back with Breakfast
:04:52. > :05:13.bulletins tomorrow. Hello. It was a lovely spring day in
:05:14. > :05:17.the sunshine. We have just had the warmest day of the year so far in
:05:18. > :05:23.Northern Ireland. It was pretty much blue skies all weekend. 21 Celsius
:05:24. > :05:27.in County Fermanagh, same for Glasgow and we had warm air from
:05:28. > :05:31.south-eastern parts of Wales towards the south coast. But areas that had
:05:32. > :05:37.the highest temperatures today, could get the lowest overnight. We
:05:38. > :05:40.will keep a clear skies with the drop in temperature, close to
:05:41. > :05:43.freezing in the countryside. The towns and cities, these are the
:05:44. > :05:48.temperatures we can expect with more cloud filtering in from eastern
:05:49. > :05:53.parts of Scotland and England. Tomorrow we have a split in the
:05:54. > :05:54.weather, the best of the sunshine in the West and again for