Alex Forsyth

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1,720 appearances 17 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 25 Aug

Alex Forsyth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Newscast · Is China Replacing Workers With Robots? · 25 Aug 2026 podcast

And the message really we've heard from ministers and others actually during the course of the day is, hang on a minute, no, you know, yes, Andy Burnham's talked about this big focus on councils getting homes built and more money going towards homes for social rent. voice-verified

But what he's doing in this instance is sort of continuing some of the work that had already been started by the previous government, led by Keir Starmer. voice-verified

And part of this is kind of pragmatic choices with projects that were already quite far down the road. voice-verified

They want to get the money out the door and get the homes built. voice-verified

But that's where there's been a little bit of kind of politics around whether Andy Burnham is delivering with this announcement what he said he was going to. voice-verified

Yeah, I th I think that's absolutely right. voice-verified

And I think, you know, it is voice-verified

Certainly when he was talking about his ambition for councils building more houses. voice-verified

I mean, I think we've we've had a really, really good look round. voice-verified

And the only quote we can find about the thirty-nine billion is when he talked about that wanting that to go on social rent. voice-verified

And to Tara's point, obviously you can have houses that are social rent. voice-verified

They're either either owned by councils or owned by housing providers. voice-verified

So that's where the government is now pointing to the fact that sixty percent of this initial tranche of funding is going to be homes for social rent, kind of regardless if we're voice-verified

whoever owns them. voice-verified

But what he was abundantly clear about was and he built it and he put it really high, you know, up his own agenda was this idea that councils should be building homes. voice-verified

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I think what's happened here is that the government would use maybe some a term like pragmatic that actually because councils haven't been building homes and council house stock has been decreasing as people have had the right to buy them up and they haven't necessarily got, you know, the people in councils like the planners and the builders and the developers who can actually get the stuff built. voice-verified

Getting that done isn't a quick thing, um and uh uh uh somehow working out how you're gonna have the biggest council house building revolution in the post war period is is gonna be quite tricky. voice-verified

Now Angela Rainey was talking about the fact they're giving money to councils, I think it's about forty six million pounds, to try and get councils to gear up so they might be in a position to build houses themselves, particularly those councils that don't, because some do, others don't. voice-verified

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