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The unintended consequence of Angela Rayner’s nature tax

15 December 2024

10:56 PM

15 December 2024

10:56 PM

Political office does odd things to parties which were in opposition. Angela Rayner and Steve Reed have written in the Sunday Times this morning complaining that environmental rules are threatening the government’s house-building targets. We’re in a situation, they say, ‘where bats and newts are getting in the way of people who desperately need housing.’

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