Sir Keir Starmer will seize control of house-building rules to get desperate wannabe homeowners on property ladder

SIR Keir Starmer will today seize control of house-building rules to get desperate wannabe homeowners on the property ladder.

The PM will ride roughshod over local planners who stand in the way of his target of building 370,000 new homes a year.

He will give town halls just three months to form blueprints for hitting new, centrally imposed mandatory house-building targets.

The thresholds, which will be confirmed today, require England’s most unaffordable areas to take on the most development.