The Liberal Democrats have maintained their national commitment to a 380,000 homes-a-year housebuilding target after a group of young members rebelled against the leadership at the Party’s Bournemouth conference this week.

The Party had proposed dropping its 380,000-home annual target, which has been in place since 2021, and replacing it with a target to build at least 150,000 “social homes” a year, on the basis that the “quantity, location, tenure and size of homes built by the private sector will be determined by market conditions and profitability to developers, not the needs of the population”.

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