Newcastle City Council

One said Jessie Jade doesn't donate 10p to charity at the checkout Another declared Jade Furwell buys makeup from Poundland.

A spokeswoman for Newcastle City Council said the authority was aware of the graffiti and taking action to remove it.

Oh, they're going to remove it.

I think

I won the selection by a landslide, but I was up against someone who, uh, was, was an uber Blairite, [laughs] um, and he, and he's never forgiven me.

But he was also the leader of Newcastle City Council.

So he was in my cabinet.

Oops.

It was sent to council leaders on the 25th of August, and it stated that it was written to set out what it called the progress that the Labour government had made since coming to power two years ago to, as it put it, reinvigorate council house building.

Rayner and Pennycook cited the government recently awarding three councils, Cambridge City Council, Eastleigh Borough Council and Newcastle City Council, 390 million pounds to build 2,800 council homes between them as part of the affordable housing program.

The government also awarded those three councils strategic partnership status, which, according to its housing agency, Homes England, provides access to funding on a long-term program level basis and offers greater flexibility over the tenure and location of delivery.

Rayner and Pennycook said that this showed how some councils were stepping up to meet the government's bold housing ambition, but they now need every council to examine its ambition and to go further.