Keir Starmer attacked for flip-flopping AGAIN as new instance exposed: 'Just another U-turn in a long list of broken promises!'
Sir Keir Starmer was accused of changing his approach on housing
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Sir Keir Starmer was accused of another U-turn as PMQs today, with Rishi Sunak attacking the Labour leader for changing his stance on new housing.
The Holborn and St Pancras MP had accused the Government of "killing the dream of a generation" by scrapping house building targets.
Defending his record in office, Sunak said that he had delivered on his pledge to give local people a bigger say over how many homes should be built.
Claiming Starmer used to agree with his approach, the Prime Minister said: "I promised to put local people in control of new housing and I'm proud that's what I delivered within six weeks of becoming Prime Minister.
Rishi Sunak said that Labour was guilty of another policy change
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"Now he wants to impose top-down housing targets, he wants to concrete over the greenbelt and ride roughshod over local communities.
"Now, previously [Starmer] did say - he's on record as saying - local people, local communities should have more power, more control.
"Now he's U-turned. Just another in a long list of broken promises."
Labour has said that if in Government it wold have a target of 70 per cent home ownership and that it will restore mandatory housing targets in a bid to build 300,000 homes a year.
Starmer had accused the Tories of 'killing the dream of a generation'
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Sunak's criticism of Starmer's pledge at PMQs today came just 24 hours after the Labour leader announced plans to shift its policy on university tuition fees.
Starmer confirmed plans to drop the commitment, contained in the party’s’ two previous manifestos, despite having promised to stick by the policy when he ran to replace Jeremy Corbyn.
He said yesterday that he was "likely to move on" from what he said about tuition fees in the 2020 leadership race.
The SNP also rounded on Starmer in the House of Commons at lunchtime for dropping the plans.
The Prime Minister joked it is 'hard to keep up with the list of broken promises'
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The party's Westminster leader, Stephen Flynn, argued it meant none of the main UK wide parties offered “any hope at all” to young people.
He asked Sunak: "In 2010 David Cameron convinced Nick Clegg to drop his pledge on university tuition fees.
"Does the Prime Minister intend to take the credit for convincing the leader of the Labour Party to do likewise?"
To laughter from Conservative benches, Sunak replied by saying it was "hard to keep up with the list of broken promises" from Labour.
A 21-page dossier complied by Conservative party officials claims that Labour has changed its position almost three dozen times on policies since Starmer became Labour leader.