• Labour’s supposedly bold ‘new towns’ idea has been tried before. And it failed | Simon Jenkins

    Labour’s supposedly bold ‘new towns’ idea has been tried before. And it failed | Simon Jenkins
    These vast sums should be spent improving our ‘second-tier’ cities – not on costly, carbon-guzzling developments in the rural southKeir Starmer’s speech to the Labour party conference was good. It was that of an expectant prime minister, of sonorous phrases and few promises. Then came two words that fell flat: new towns. There would be “Labour new towns”, whatever they are, referred to in later briefing as in the south, on the “M1 corridor”, brooki

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