Trevor Phillips caught Angela Rayner contradicting herself over the housing disaster and immigration in a tense interview this morning.

The deputy prime minister, who can be the housing secretary, was chatting with the media to advertise Labour’s promise to construct 1.5 million new properties over the course of this parliament.

On Sky Information, Rayner mentioned: “We will’t keep on like this. We’re not getting the event we want, we’re not getting the homes we want.

“We’ve obtained the eight instances the common earnings for first-time consumers. Individuals are priced out of getting a house. I’m decided to alter it.”

Sky Information presenter Phillips identified that whereas Rayner desires so as to add properties for 4.3 million folks, Labour can be encouraging 2.5 million different folks to the UK over the identical interval through immigration.

He mentioned: “Are you content material that greater than 5 out of seven properties will go to immigrants?”

“That’s not the reality. That’s not the truth,” she replied.

However the presenter requested the place this new inflow of individuals are speculated to stay.

Rayner mentioned: “There’s loads of housing within the UK, however the homes –”

Phillips hit again: “Cling on! You possibly can’t on one hand say, ‘let’s construct 1.5m homes’ after which say ‘there’s loads of housing already’.”

She replied: “There’s loads of housing Trevor, however there’s not sufficient for the individuals who desperately want it.

“So the properties, particularly underneath our social reasonably priced housing, they are going to be there for individuals who desperately want them.”

He mentioned: “This doesn’t fairly make sense. You begin the interview by telling me there’s a housing disaster.

“Once I remind you that you’ve got mentioned your self as a authorities we want 2.5 million migrants – a few of them by the way in which are going to construct this new housing – abruptly, there’s a number of housing.

“The place are these folks going to go?”

The cupboard minister mentioned the earlier authorities used migrants an excessive amount of for constructing, and that there has not been sufficient concentrate on social housing.

Earlier within the interview, Phillips additionally famous that Rayner’s guarantees would nonetheless solely work out to an additional 9 properties per 1,000 folks, including: “Not very a lot is it?”

However she mentioned: “We haven’t seen housebuilding like this since Fifties, after the Second World Conflict.”

Rayner additionally pushed again when the presenter questioned how she intends to cope with environmental protections which stop housebuilding.

She mentioned: “We will’t have a scenario the place newts are extra protected than individuals who desperately want housing and what we want is a course of which says shield nature and wildlife – however not on the expense of us constructing the homes. We might do each.”

This new housebuilding pledge is a part of PM Keir Starmer’s reset for the authorities.

Different “missions” embody elevating residing requirements in each a part of the UK, ending hospital backlogs, recruiting 13,000 extra “bobbies on the beat”, rising the variety of kids in England who’re “able to be taught” once they begin college at 5, and placing the UK on monitor for a minimum of 95% clear energy by 2030.