All John Healey articles

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    Government's housing target ‘plucked out of the air’, says shadow secretary

    2019-06-13T05:00:00Z

    John Healey tells ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø there is ‘nothing to suggest’ target can be reached

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    The cruelty of breeding force-fed first-time buyers

    2009-12-08T15:47:00Z

    Here's a question that goes right to the heart of current housing policy: Should we be using incentives as readily as we are to encourage first-time buyers onto the property ladder?However iconoclastic or contrary this question may seem, it needs to be asked. There is so much at stake.Promoting first-time ...

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    The government's greenprint

    2009-07-24T10:59:00Z

    Or, at least that was the case until last week, when it published its carbon transition plan: practical proposals to make just about everything more energy-efficient. The aim is to reduce carbon emission in 2020 to 34% of their level in 1990.The plan should be broadly welcomed, largely because it ...