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The Prime Minister has set out more details on the government’s programme of activity and proposed new laws today after the King’s Speech. Many of the plans will affect Kent, as our political editor Paul Francis reports… Housing There has been something of an attritional war on the always controversial topic of housing, with Labour pledging to build 1.5m homes over the lifetime of the Parliament. The government hopes to avoid controversy over the threat to green belt land by allowing some development on less attractive sites – so-called ‘grey belt’. And after the previous Conservative governme…

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