She told The Telegraph: “They’ve utterly failed to bring their pledge to fruition because they’ve layered taxes and red tape onto the industry, making building less and less viable.”And, writing in GB News in response to the Budget, she said the “biggest blockers to building are the Net Zero building regulations which Healey explicitly promised to maintain”.Steve Turner, the executive director of the Home Builders Federation, said Labour’s reforms since taking office were welcome but failed to address “the massive increase over the past 20 years in the level of taxation and policies, all with a cost, levied on to housebuilding by successive governments”.These included requirements to build affordable homes as well as environmental schemes and taxes.