Exclusive: HBF boss hits out at Gove over ‘cartel’ slur

Stewart Baseley, HBF re-sized

Stewart Baseley calls housing secretary’s comments ’extremely worrying’ in leaked letter

The boss of the Home Builders’ Federation has hit out at the housing secretary over comments, reported this week, in which he described housebuilders as operating in a “cartel”.

Stewart Baseley, executive chair of the HBF, has written a letter to Michael Gove, which Housing Today has seen, in which he described the comments as “entirely unfounded” and “extremely worrying”.

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