That's a wrap! Huge thank you to Steve Reed and the entire Labour Yimby team for such an unforgettable Labour Conference. They brought energy, fun, and the largest events programme we've ever run. Labour is united behind the need to Build Baby Build! A look back across the week ⬇️

As we approached LGBT+ Labour’s 50th anniversary, I’m not sure we expected to have such a venue to host a celebration! Thanks to the PM for popping up to cut the cake but also to our speakers for highlighting the progress Labour Government’s have made for LGBT+ rights, since we were founded in 1975.

Flying the Labour YIMBY flag!

So proud of the @labouryimby.bsky.social team today Today we put on events at the South East, East Mids and Yorkshire & Humber Labour Regional Conferences Labour is proud to be the party of the builders and we are proud to be part of it Get in touch please on [email protected]

Fantastic @labouryimby.bsky.social panel at South East Regional Conference Regenerating our industry heartland in the South East is often forgotten on a national level but we need to focus on it to deliver growth and the homes we need

The Sunday Times is right—Milton Keynes is one of the most exciting and innovative places in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc. A city built for growth, with the infrastructure, ambition, and economic strength to lead the UK’s next phase of development. www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

Great to be back yesterday at the @jewishlabour.bsky.social One Day Conference. Joined @ecourea.bsky.social & @luke-akehurstmp.bsky.social to talk all things Labour, the NEC and the next few years of the Party adjusting to campaigning in power.

The Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill is the biggest reform to child protection in a decade. The Tories might talk about fixing education & safeguarding, but they had 14 years to do it. It's time for them to stop chasing the populist bandwagon and focus on making change for the better.

A new NHS Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) opened on Sheppey just before Christmas. This means the PM’s announcement today about streamlining access to CDCs for patients, will have a big positive impact on getting waiting times down round here. Very good to see. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

We're looking back at our most read articles of 2024. 8️⃣ - Our housing columnist @yimbychris.bsky.social took a look at 'NIMBYism' on Wandsworth Council.

The government’s white paper on devolution today is a welcome step. It removes yet more bottlenecks in the planning system. As housing is approved at the local level, fixing local government is key to improving the supply of housing.

The Centre for Cities team are at the House of Commons today to host our Housing reception for the launch of our ‘Restarting housebuilding’ report series 🏠👇

As an ex-Chair of a planning committee I hugely welcome the Gov's plans to speed up the planning system. Let me explain why... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I was elected to deliver real change, and I want you to be part of shaping it. Exciting things are ahead for 2025 - more to come.

Over 150,000 children in England will spend this Christmas without a proper home This is the reality of the current housing system was broken by the Conservatives A system which has left over one million families stuck on housing waiting lists and locked an entire generation out of homeownership

Me in the New Statesman, making the case for build, build, build

Our housing columnist @yimbychris.bsky.social argues that degrowth is a 'political dead end'

The one enduring memory I have of John Prescott was volunteering on his Police and Crime Commissioner campaign at Uni nearly 15 years ago. Bunch of us were in Hull town centre and Prescott was speaking on a microphone without many people listening.

The fight back in Tower Hamlets continues with the opposition winning a series of votes to take over a series of committees - including SDC off the former chair who is so corrupt he wrote to the former owner of a strip club asking for £100k to keep their licence

NEW: MHCLG opens consultation on sweeping right to buy changes 🏠Council tenants to live in home for approx 10yrs (up fr 3) to qualify 🏠New-build social homes exempt 🏠1-for-1 replacement target for councils 🏠Discounts to fall further - to max of 20% 🏠Repaid if tenants sell w/in 10yrs, up from 5

Great to be at full council in Tower Hamlets - all the Aspire Cllr’s being passed speeches and questions from Lutfars office is hilarious, he can’t trust his own group - no wonder he doesn’t give them any power

Seeing Vanessa Williams in the flesh is stupidly exciting 👠💃

NEW: President Biden given permission to Ukraine to use long range US missiles inside Russia for the first time. Major change in US policy, two months before Trump takes office. Biden has authorised it in response to North Korean troops being deployed to the frontlines.

Really helpful! Thanks

Cowardly and dishonest position from Momentum. Any starting point to negotiation has to be an end to occupation. Russia won't accept that and has said so. Because it's trying to occupy Ukrainian land and dominate its people. For Russia, this is a colonial war.

Labour YIMBY Christmas Party - Monday, 9th Dec We are pleased to announce that Labour YIMBY will be holding our first Christmas Party at the Munich Cricket Club, 1 Abbey Orchard St, London SW1P 2LU on Monday 9th December from 7pm until late with drink and food provided.

I've created a starter pack of housing accounts worth following: go.bsky.app/CiCBZee

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Lovely evening celebrating @adamallnutt.bsky.social and Amy’s engagement! Fabulous couple.

Excited to be at the What House? Awards with the Weston Homes Team - an award winner medium house builder that is a shining example of the industry

🚨 My latest as unofficial Bluesky correspondent: A growing number of MPs are weighing up whether to leave X and move to alternative platforms like Bluesky Some feel the past week has approached a "tipping point" and want the government to start to move away from X too

Blue Sky has definitely seen a huge up tick in people and traffic

Feel like my first post should be something #YIMBY related We need more homes built for many reasons - environmental, social and more