Particular. Labour focus some changes to planning in particular. Labourfocus on it because they think there are blockages in the system. Too much time taken to make decisions which are holding the whole thing up. Theyve been clear they want to change the Planning System to overcome some of those blockages. They have reintroduced mandatory House Building targets. Local authorities will have a target for the homes they need to get built and will have to meet it. That was scrapped under the last government. While there is an accepted about when and where and how it is built might not be popular with local communities, so it has been in focus. I think we will hear Angela Rayner talk about that today, not just increasing the number of houses built overall, but she has also made a point of saying she wants more social and affordable housing as well, and another element of her speech we were expecting today is going to Focus On Standards in housing. We have seen the reports that have come to
well, i had some colleagues, probably the first or second time that i went over, i was out to dinner with a bunch of chinese colleagues. and they asked me what the american system was doing. and i described how under things like no child left behinds are we were doing a lot more testing, we were focus on standards a lot. it got translated. and they burst out laughing. i asked the translator what s so funny? they said, they think you re joking because that s the system that we re trying to move away from. we re trying to move away from what you re doing with creativity and problem solving and innovation. so i did what any red-blooded american would do, and i just pretended that we were joking and not moving in that direction. we also can t forget there s huge cultural differences in the importance of education. you can t go into a shanghai family s house and not see evidence that education is job