The chancellor has reiterated the government's plan to build 1,500,000 homes over its first five years of power, to solve the UK's "desperate housing crisis". Rachel Reeves spoke on a visit to a housing development in Stoke-on-Trent with Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We're here to announce an additional two billion pounds to build up to 18,000
00:07homes. We know that there's a desperate housing crisis across the West Midlands,
00:11across the United Kingdom, and that's why we're determined to build one and a
00:15half million homes in this Parliament, including the social and affordable
00:19homes that families need. It's obviously very concerning whenever businesses are
00:25in trouble. It's welcome to see that Royal Stafford has a buyer, another UK
00:30ceramics company, and we want to work with the local community, the local
00:35council and local businesses to address long-standing issues, for example high
00:40energy costs, which is why as a government we're investing in
00:43homegrown energy to deal with the energy crisis that we face in Britain.