Angela Rayner had the right comeback when Laura Kuenssberg tried to catch the deputy PM out over her new housing targets.

Rayner, who can be the housing secretary, was talking to broadcasters to advertise Labour’s plan to construct 1.5 million extra properties throughout this parliamentary time period.

However, over on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the BBC presenter mentioned Rayner and Keir Starmer have been “firing off assaults” to these individuals who oppose their plans, calling them “naysayers and blockers”.

Rayner refused to call precisely who fell into that class, as a substitute saying that any worries individuals had stemmed from points throughout the system.

So Kuenssberg tried a special method, and as a substitute introduced pictures of Rayner in 2017 protesting as a neighborhood MP towards additional constructing developments in her constituency of Ashton-under-Lyne.

“In 2017, had been you a naysayer and a blocker?” Kuenssberg mentioned.

Rayner hit again: “Nicely we additionally had one other website in Tameside which might have constructed the infrastructure would have delivered properties for individuals – truly, extra properties for individuals – versus the sector they had been going to construct on.

“I believe truly the native plans are extremely necessary as a result of then you’ll be able to establish the place you suppose these homes ought to be constructed domestically.

“After which you can also make certain builders construct there, and you can also make it a faster course of for them.

“So as a substitute of them selecting websites that native individuals don’t need, native individuals would have mentioned w need housing and builders would get a candy spot as a result of they’ll get the quick observe in the event that they construct it there.

“And that’s what we are attempting to do – push them to do what native individuals need, and to place the infrastructure through which native individuals desperately need as effectively.”

Kuenssberg simply mentioned: “Nicely, we’ll see the way it transpires, as a result of it’s a difficulty native individuals get very obsessed with – native individuals, native politicians.”

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

Different “missions” embrace 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 study” after they begin college at 5, and placing the UK on observe for at the least 95% clear energy by 2030.