Government lays out housing plans but Burnham backtracks on social renting pledge – UK politics live

£10bn for housing with 60% social renting is at odds with PM’s previous call for programme to be spent entirely on social homesA housing minister has rejected suggestions that Andy Burnham has failed to his keep promises on council housing, as the government unveiled a nearly £10bn plan to boost “genuinely affordable homes”.The prime minister has pledged to carry out the biggest council housebuilding programme since the postwar period, with more than 70,000 homes, 60% allocated for social rent, to be delivered across England.No, I don’t. I mean, Andy Burnham said in the byelection that he wanted to see more