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