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Why the Tories are tearing themselves apart over housing

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The Hokey Coke of the 300,000 Year

We want to see more homes built. We need to build the right homes in the right places. But there is a limit. There is a real concern about loss of greenfield land, loss of agricultural land and over tower blocks in the suburbs as well. The leader of this rebellion was Theresa Villiers. She's a former environment secretary and she's the MP for Chipping Barnet in North London. It's always been Tory. And what you've seen, like a similar pattern all over it is the Chipping Away, no pun intended, at her majority. Her beat her labor opposition by only 1200 votes in 2019.

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