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49% Say Labour Fails Housing, 300k Built vs 1.5 m Promise

5/10/2026

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Ipsos poll finds 49% of Britons think Labour is doing a bad job on housing.
33% of respondents worry about rent or mortgage repayments.
Labour has built over 300,000 homes in its first 18 months, short of the 1.5 million promised.
Twenty-six percent would prefer Reform for housing, while 45% think Reform would perform worse than Labour.

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Ipsos poll finds 49% of Britons think Labour is doing a bad job on housing.
33% of respondents worry about rent or mortgage repayments.
Labour has built over 300,000 homes in its first 18 months, short of the 1.5 million promised.
Twenty-six percent would prefer Reform for housing, while 45% think Reform would perform worse than Labour.