As he was pushing the Greens commitment to housing, the Labour Party was questioning it. <\/p>\n
Outside the building where the launch was taking place, a van pulled up. <\/p>\n
On it, claims from Labour that across the country the Greens had blocked the development of more than 40,000 homes.<\/p>\n
Housing Secretary Steve Reed said: “Zack Polanski can launch whatever campaign he likes, but the facts don’t change. <\/p>\n
“From Lewisham to Camden, Hackney to Islington, Greens have opposed thousands of homes in a city where the housing crisis is most acute.”<\/p>\n
However, Polanksi hit back.<\/p>\n
“I think Labour saying they’ve done some research is doing some heavy lifting there because no one seems to know where these numbers have come from,” he said.<\/p>\n
Polanski added that Green councils across the country had given planning permission for new homes, but accused developers of failing to build.<\/p>\n
When asked if he thought voters were turning to the Greens because they liked their policies, or were just fed up with the other parties he replied: “Honestly, it’s probably a bit of both.<\/p>\n
“It excites me as a Londoner to know that there is an option on the ballot paper that will excite people and bring communities together – that looks like the future of London.”<\/p>\n
On 8 May we’ll know how many Londoners agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As he was pushing the Greens commitment to housing, the Labour Party was questioning it. Outside the building…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-522673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}