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alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alegreen about what it means for green spaces, about what it means for gapsin spaces, about what it means for gaps in between villages. and by the way, when all these houses get built, there will be no more gp's, no more school places, no more roads, no your quality of life, your quality of life will diminish directly as a result of this. now, whether they can actually meet the target, i very much doubt without importing huge amounts of foreign labour, which of course in turn will mean even more demand for houses. right now we have to provide one new home every two minutes just to keep pace with levels of immigration in this country. so the truth of it is, we must build every green belt

land all over our nation just to house those that have come into this country in the course of the last ten years. however, we have a serious housing shortage. what are we to do.7 i'm have a serious housing shortage. what are we to do? i'm joined by kane emerson, head of housing research at an outfit called yimby, not nimby. yimby. which i guess kane means you're quite in favour of housebuilding everywhere. >> yeah. yes. in my backyard. yeah. >> so forget the green belt, forget historic england, just build everywhere. >> well, i wouldn't necessarily build absolutely everywhere. you know, the announcements today aren't a kind of a way to concrete over the countryside. we know that the green belt only represents about 10% of the countryside, so why not protect it? yes. well, under the plans today, hopefully we get much more high quality countryside protected. so this labour government has announced plans that they're going to designate some of the green belt into grey belt. so that's areas such as, you know, rubbish dumps or garages, disused land. >> so if it's literally just that, i don't think there'll be

a problem. but will it stay at that. >> well it may involve some green belt development, but at a sustainable and sustainable location. so green belt, particularly in the southeast , particularly in the southeast, councils can no longer use having green belt as a bit of excuse for not developing any new homes. >> all right. i'm also joined in the studio by kwasi kwarteng, former chancellor and matthew torbitt former labour party adviser. just to quickly cut in with you guys before i come back to kane here, kwasi, basically you filled the country up with millions of people. the impact is we just have to build loads of houses. >> so this has been an issue for 25 years, but much worse. >> in the last 14, i'd say. >> in the last 14, i'd say. >> i'd say no, actually, i'd say it's been. well, look at the numbers. well, look, not just the immigration. >> let far more people in than anybody else might have done, but the issue live somewhere. >> the issue is the house building and we haven't been housebuilding. that's the issue. that's the issue. >> so it's not just about how could you when you were projecting for tens of thousands a year net to build, how could

you build houses for millions? >> so that was an issue. but of course, you will remember that when we had lots of immigration from the eu in the in the noughfies from the eu in the in the noughties with under tony blair, and that was an issue as well. and what's happened is whether we like it or not. and i know you've campaigned, you've spent your whole life, professional life, political life campaigning against this, warning people, warning people about it, warning this would happen. but but look so the population when we were growing up 55 million that was the figure that we all learned, you know, growing up. the population now is probably about 70 million. i mean, officially it might be 67, but actually in reality it's 70 million. so you've got a 15 million increase. and people are better because of maths, not just because of maths, not just because of maths, not just because of us. it's happened over the last 25 years. it's you could you could blame the political, the pace of it. >> it's been higher in the last three years than it's ever been in our history, and three times what it was under tony blair. >> the reality is looking forward and it's happened. something that's happened in the last 20 years. we need to build more houses. and it's not just about immigration, it's about

people. yeah. >> because also the five out of every seven new houses will go to immigrants. >> no. but listen, i mean, it's not that's i think a bit too simplistic. if you look at how people live now, if you look at how people live. nigel, back in the day, there were family units. people lived generally, you know, the 2.4 kids. do you remember that statistic? yeah, that was a family unit. now people live as individuals. there are people getting married later. they want to be have individual lifestyles and they live as a single people. that's an issue there is in terms of the some truth in that. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> and so in terms of it's not just the immigration issue, there's a lifestyle issue as well, which means added together that we need more housing. >> matthew, do you think labour can actually meet these targets? is it actually i mean, ignoring for a minute the arguments about greenbelt and desirability. is it even possible? >> probably not, but i don't think there's i don't think there's any harm in having target. >> that's right. i think the worst case you can go well, we still built, you know, hundreds of thousands more than the last lot. that's why you should trust us to finish the job in another

five years. us to finish the job in another five year