07/05/2017 London News


07/05/2017

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Good evening from BBC London News, I'm Victoria Hollins.

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Labour looks set to encourage local authorities to begin a massive

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programme of council houses in the capital.

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The Sunday Politics heard how Labour looks likely to enable councils

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to borrow money to invest in council housing which hasn't been

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Mr and Mrs Parker applied to buy their house...

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Under the Thatcher government, there was the right

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Three decades on, it is about building more of them.

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We have seen more than twice as much council housing being built.

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I want a Labour government that builds council houses.

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Creating new council houses needs funding,

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but for the past 30 years, local authorities have been banned

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Today, a veteran London Labour figure signalled it could change.

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Will you be allowing authorities local councils

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We are in this period when we have yet to see the manifesto,

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but if you are saying 1 million homes in five years.

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Half of which will be council housing and that

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Labour have promised to build a million homes

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in the next five years, half of them council houses.

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They'd set up a new housing ministry and want to bring

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But critics say Labour cannot be trusted to borrow money

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This is where Labour gets into familiar problems.

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They have unfunded tax spending plans.

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The Tories are expected to stick with key parts of their recent

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housing White Paper, which pledges 250,000

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A so-called lifetime ISA to help first-time

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A clamp-down on letting agent fees and rogue landlords.

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The Liberal Democrats say they continued the Olympic precept,

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The Liberal Democrats say they'd continued the Olympic precept,

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the charge to Londoners which helped pay for the 2012 Games in order

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The Lib Dems have pledged to build 300,000 homes

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a year across the country, but also we have got to tackle

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the private rented sector, one in four Londoners rent privately.

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The government admits the housing market is broken but there is no

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agreement among the parties on how to fix it.

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And differences on how to tackle housing evident again today?

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Yes, indications today Labour would give back to local authorities, the

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responsibility for driving house-building in their area by

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allowing them to borrow money to build council houses. They could

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then be rented out to tenants at a much lower rate. The Lib Dems said

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they would support that policy. On the other hand, the Tory say it is

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not the right approach, for them it is effective management of the

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economy which creates growth and that would kick-start a process of

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house-building. Ukip said they are eyeing up Brownfield sites while

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sparing the green belt. As for the Green party, they say you need

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something like rent caps to tackle this crisis. We hope to get more

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information in the party manifestos in the coming week and Londoners can

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make up their own minds on what is a key issue for the city, Victoria.

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Thank you. Hundreds of people have marched

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through the streets of north London to highlight the problem of knife

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and gun crime. Among those attending the Enough

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is Enough march were mothers Ten people have been stabbed

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to death in London in just Tube passengers could face

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disruption at London Bridge station Members of the RMT union

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are protesting against The union say a staff member

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was sacked and two others were disciplined unfairly

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following an incident Underground bosses said

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the employee had demonstrated The protest ends at

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10pm tomorrow tonight. Let's have a look at the weather

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with Alina Jenkins. If it's rain you're after, there's

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not much of it in this forecast. Lots of cloud around tonight

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and that will keep temperatures up It looks like cloud will be the main

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feature of the forecast tomorrow, limited bright or sunny spells,

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a fairly cool, northerly wind, so underneath the cloud,

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temperatures will struggle to get But those values starting to rise

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next week, some sunshine on Tuesday and Wednesday,

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a chilly night, perhaps on Tuesday and Wednesday,

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a chilly nights, perhaps with a touch of frost and maybe

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some rain by Friday. We're back with Breakfast

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bulletins tomorrow. Hello. It was a lovely spring day in

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the sunshine. We have just had the warmest day of the year so far in

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Northern Ireland. It was pretty much blue skies all weekend. 21 Celsius

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in County Fermanagh, same for Glasgow and we had warm air from

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south-eastern parts of Wales towards the south coast. But areas that had

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the highest temperatures today, could get the lowest overnight. We

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will keep a clear skies with the drop in temperature, close to

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freezing in the countryside. The towns and cities, these are the

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temperatures we can expect with more cloud filtering in from eastern

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parts of Scotland and England. Tomorrow we have a split in the

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weather, the best of the sunshine in the West and again for

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