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

But it isn't gonna be a kind of quick thing. voice-verified

And there is another side to this argument, which we know that voice-verified

When you look at people that are on housing waiting lists or in temporary accommodation and that means like children sometimes living in B and B's and and really quite unsuitable accommodation and you hear some really heartbreaking stories about what that means for individuals and their lives, there are people that would argue actually trying to kind of unpick this program to focus on getting councils ready to build houses would take a really long period of time. voice-verified

And actually the better thing to do is try and get some homes being built now, if that as long as that means that a decent chunk of them are going to be available for social rent, so that people on lower incomes who need that kind of housing might be able to access that housing stock much more quickly. voice-verified

But that doesn't take away from the fact that, yeah, I mean, Andy Burnham. voice-verified

And not just Andy Burnham, but Andy Burnham in this instance, as Prime Minister, was making some bold pledges. voice-verified

And in this initial allocation of the funds here, that isn't to the letter of what he said he was going to do. voice-verified

The question remains is is he going to be able to get to that later and deliver on some of the stuff that he has said he will? voice-verified

it's just worth wonder remembering on that point that when Tarr quite rightly just speaks about how long some people are sort of looking at before they get something that they might consider a secure home. voice-verified

That is the issue that sits behind all of this. voice-verified

You know, yes, there uh is a a political argument today over whether this aligns with Andy Burnham's pledge around councils building houses and most of this money going on social homes, but much bigger than that sits behind this the bigger issue of this challenge. voice-verified

That has plagued successive governments who've promised to fix what they call a housing crisis and bluntly haven't really done that. voice-verified

So, you know, what happens beyond this initial tranche of funding is really gonna matter. voice-verified

And it whether or not that is a sort of shift in the direction as we're getting signals from Andy Burnham's government that they want to get councils building more homes, and then separately to and whether or not they can actually do that, given the funding pressures on councils and everything else, and separately beyond that, they set themselves a target of building one point or getting 1.5 million homes built overall. voice-verified

That's all types of housing by the end of this parliament. voice-verified

And it's worth noting that as things stand, they are not on track. voice-verified

track to deliver that pledge. voice-verified

So the much bigger question and perhaps the much bigger political pressure for this government is can they, to put it bluntly, get enough homes built to ease that pressure that so many people are facing right now? voice-verified

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Yes, I've got it and I have well, I've actually downloaded it onto my Kindle, I'll be perfectly honest. voice-verified

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