Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to “get tough” with Nimbys - including his own MPs - if they try to stand in the way of his pledge to build 1.5million new homes. 

Sir Keir confirmed the pledge in his conference speech in Liverpool yesterday as he said a Labour government would “get Britain building again”. 

The Labour leader said this morning that he would “get tough with anybody who stands in the way” of new housing and argued that the nation needed to “rise above” Nimbyism. 

Asked if he would crackdown on Labour MPs if they attempted to block development in their own constituencies, he told Times Radio: “Yes, of course we will and that is always a feature of politics but we have to rise above that. That has held back housing for the last 13 years. We cannot allow that to go on. 

“Obviously we want to work with local communities. That is why we have set out that this will be done bringing local authorities together to ensure that we get the right housing in the right place. 

“The problem we have got at the moment is it is a bit of a wild west. Property is hoarded, developers in the end get the final say on where houses are. I want that to be done by local communities working together strategically, the right housing that they want with the right infrastructure, the schools and the public services to go with it. 

“But we are going to have to get tough with anybody who stands in the way of that and that will include any Labour MPs who say well I am signed up to the project but just not here.” 

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