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
Are following multiple Breaking News Stories at this hour, starting in the middle east. Fears of an All Out War are growing as Israel And Iran backed hezbollah continue to trade strikes across the lebanon border. The idf says its intensifying strikes against the militant group. At this hour, after hezbollah reportedly fired more than 100 rockets into Northern Israel overnight, some of those Rockets Landing near israeli military facilities and an air base, you can see the damage left behind there. Officials say at least three people are hurt. Hezbollah says its latest attack was in response to israeli strikes on saturday. The idf claims it took out thousands of Rocket Launchers in those attacks as an offensive move. After uncovering plans for a hezbollah rocket attack. Now, the new wave of violence between the sides began earlier this week with the explosions of Booby Trapped Hezbollah Pagers and walkie talkies. At least two senior militant leaders have been killed. And now to Breaking
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Worse. Parents searching in vainforan nhs worse. Parents searching in vain for an Nhs Dentist for their kids. And cancer patients waiting months or even years to start treatment. The Conservative Party left office with almost 6. 5 million people languishing on hospital Waiting Lists. , that is one in every nine people in england. A single astonishing statistic that encapsulates an appalling legacy of failure from the last conservative government. And a disaster for our society and our economy. Just imagine. Just imagine how much better it thinks would be now if those 6. 5 million people had already had the operational treatment they need and been able to get on with their lives. Just imagine how many people would now be back at work, earning a decent living and boosting our economy. Just imagine how much pain, Stress And Anxiety families would have been saved from, and how much more free they would feel as a result. That is, after all, why the nhs is so important to us as liberals and