The Pledge

We need to build beautiful homes in places people want to live, enhance the nature around them, and create communities where families thrive.

We build too few homes. In the wrong places. That few people like. Without planned infrastructure. Then act surprised when locals object, buyers can’t afford them, and nothing improves.

This isn’t a housing crisis—it’s a policy failure.

Britain is short over 4 million homes. You’re earning good money and can’t buy a flat. And every development becomes a planning battle that satisfies nobody.

We can keep doing this. Or we can build a city.

Not another housing estate. A real city for 1 million people where:

• ✓ People want to live — Beautiful architecture, walkable neighborhoods, real place-making. Communities that feel like home, not just addresses.
• ✓ Businesses want to be — East of Cambridge, unlocking Britain’s innovation capital.
• ✓ Families thrive — Community-owned, affordable forever. Built for raising children and putting down roots.
• ✓ Nature improves — 12,000 acres of new native forest. England is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. We can build a city and repair biodiversity at the same time.
• ✓ Infrastructure works — Schools, hospitals, transport, and parks designed from day one—not squeezed in as afterthoughts.

Britain’s first new city in 50 years. Proof that we can still build extraordinary things. That ambition isn’t dead. That working families aren’t permanently locked out. That we can create places worth caring about.

For this to work, government needs to back it—not with subsidy, but with permission. Development Corporation powers to build at scale without decades-long planning paralysis. The proven model that delivered Milton Keynes, Canary Wharf, and the Olympics.

I want to live in a country where I can afford a home, raise a family, and believe tomorrow will be better than today. Where we build beautiful places that strengthen communities and repair nature. Where we choose ambition over managed decline.

I support Britain building its next great city.