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David Cameron, the Prime Minister, told the Conservative party conference in Manchester: ‘We need a national crusade to get homes built.’ George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that councils would be allowed to set their own business rates and keep all the money they raise. Lord Adonis, the Labour peer, moved to the crossbenches on being appointed by Mr Osborne to head the new National Infrastructure Commission, to assess needs and ‘hold any government’s feet to the fire if it fails to deliver’.
In a speech to the Tory conference that the Institute of Directors called ‘irresponsible rhetoric’ and Migration Watch UK called ‘thoroughly courageous’, Theresa May, the Home Secretary, said that migrants ‘who claim asylum after abusing the visa system or having travelled to get here through safe countries’ would only be granted a minimum stay of protection.
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