Housing White Paper

Oliver Letwin Excerpts

Tuesday 7th February 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Pithiness from a philosopher perhaps? I call Sir Oliver Letwin.

[Sir Oliver Letwin (West Dorset) (Con)]

I hugely welcome this well-balanced package, but may I invite the Secretary of State to be a bit more optimistic about the prospects for consensus? Did he notice, as I did, that despite the sound and fury the shadow Housing Minister remarkably did not actually disagree with anything in the White Paper?

[Sajid Javid]

My right hon. Friend points out that the shadow Minister has realised what he could actually have done when he was Housing Minister.