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Starmer challenges Sunak in PMQs over the housing crisis as "Housebuilding plummets"

During another heated session at prime minister’s questions, the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, clashed with Rishi Sunak on the issue of housebuilding, telling MPs that the government was falling short of its own housebuilding targets. Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► Starmer said: ‘The ambitions of families across the country have been crushed by his failing Tory government.’ He added that housebuilding was at its lowest rate since the war because the prime minister ‘can’t stand up to his own party’. Sunak responded by arguing that the Labour leader’s shadow cabinet didn’t support his position on increasing the housing supply and said that housing starts are double the number they were under Labour. He also added that there is a 20-year high for first-time buyers. The Guardian publishes independent journalism, made possible by supporters. Contribute to The Guardian today ► Sign up to the Guardian's free new daily newsletter, First Edition ► Website ► Faceb