"Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites."

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"Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites."

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"The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe."

Choice

"Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites."

Policy

"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."

Progress

"In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that."

Development

"You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our programmes are designed to do that - but if that's a picture of Newcastle, it's not the one I recognise and I bet none in the North East do either."

Doubt

"What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation."

Government

"It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration."

Direction

"That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer."

Government

"Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north."

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"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."

Houses