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By City A.M. Comment Desk City A.M.’s new weekly feature takes the fiercest water-cooler debates and pits two candidates head to head before delivering The Judge’s ultimate verdict. This week: we are in the midst of a housing crisis and Labour has committed to a programme of new towns – so should the UK build more Peterboroughs and Stoke on Trents? Yes: Building new towns can help solve England’s housing crisis – but we shouldn’t stop there Evidence of the UK’s housing crisis abounds, marked by a deficit of over 4m homes and the highest house prices relative to earnings in 150 years. More youn…