8/25/2026
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Government lays out housing plans but Burnham backtracks on social renting pledge – UK politics live
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£10bn for housing with 60% social renting is at odds with PM’s previous call for programme to be spent entirely on social homesSocial housing tenants will be evicted if they fail to keep their gardens well maintained under a Reform UK government, the party has announced.Lee Anderson, the party’s chair, said that if Reform came to power it would insist that those in social rented homes would be required to keep their properties decorated and gardens looked after.No, I don’t. I mean, Andy Burnham
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