Theresa May wants to have her cake and eat it with housebuilding too | Simon Jenkins

In trying to woo millennials and keep the Tory shires sweet, the government’s message on planning policy is mixed at best

Theresa May is becoming the maestro of contradiction. Over the weekend she announced the most savagely centralised planning regime in English history. Housing targets are to be imposed on every local authority – irrespective of where they are or the state of local demand. She sees provincial England as the Soviets saw power stations: as a statistical blob. Any council that...