Michael Gove is right about one thing: building more homes won’t solve anything | Simon Jenkins

The UK has enough housing to go around – the problem is that the market is inefficient

Boris Johnson’s Queen’s speech was largely empty of substance. So thank goodness for the housing and planning secretary, Michael Gove. In his contribution he never spoke truer words, at least if anyone understood them. He has dismissed housing targets as “Procrustean … arbitrary … perfect arithmetic”.

In plain terms, what Gove meant was that Johnson’s mantra of “build, build, build” (a parroting of his chief pa...