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Philip Hammond – ‘We are delivering homes at record numbers’

Philip Hammond is set to deliver his second budget on Wednesday, which many believe will be make or break for his future at No. 11 Downing Street. He faces a difficult balancing act with challenges on many different fronts, including how to address the UK’s housing crisis. The Chancellor defended the government’s record on housing, though he acknowledged that the government did need to intervene in an area that he referred to as a ‘priority’:

AM: Almost everybody agrees that there is a housing crisis in this country. Sajid Javid was sitting in that chair a few weeks ago and he said we need really big thinking on this… Have you turned him down?

PH: …Sajid and I have been working very closely together with the Prime Minister. She said in Manchester in October that this is her number one priority, and the Budget is our opportunity to set out how we’re going to deliver on that priority, how we’re going to make good on our pledge to the next generation that they should have the same opportunities that their parents’ generation had.