内容摘要：The debate has raised speculation about how aggressive Trump will decide to be, given the potential economic risks.

The debate has raised speculation about how aggressive Trump will decide to be, given the potential economic risks.

"I know it's just a simple thing, but I love the colours of all the different stones, I just think it's absolutely beautiful."Labour's Andy Burnham wants to press pause on the Right to Buy scheme after claiming it was the reason the housing crisis had got "worse every year".

He has called on the government to "suspend" the Right to Buy housing scheme to allow for more social homes to be built across the county.Mr Burnham has pledged to build 10,000 homes across Greater Manchester after he was elected for a third-term in theThe Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) said it remained committed to Right to Buy, which had "helped over two million social housing tenants to become homeowners".

Right to Buy allows most council tenants to buy their council home at a discount and supporters have said the scheme has helped people climb the housing ladder and secure their families' financial futures.However, Mr Burnham said the housing crisis was "getting worse every year" because of it.

Speaking on BBC Breakfast, he said: "We lose social homes every year, and across Greater Manchester for the last year 500 social homes were lost.

"I'm saying to Whitehall and Westminster - you need to allow us to suspend Right to Buy from the new homes that we are building because if we don't, trying to solve the housing crisis is like trying to fill a bath but with the plug out because you try and build new homes but you lose them at the other end."At the time of the committee’s report HS2 Ltd acknowledged the payments were a “serious error”.

You might have thought a megaproject costing billions would be a political priority. However, in 2017, Brexit was dominating the agenda and if an outsider had the impression that MPs were distracted when they voted through the country’s biggest infrastructure project, they’d be right.Philip Hammond told me: “I'm sorry to disappoint you, but HS2 was not the main issue of the moment. The government was teetering on the brink, trying to deal with the daily hourly pressures of the Brexit negotiation. Long-term projects were perhaps not seen as quite as immediately urgent.”

By the time of the vote, many believed the likely costs would be much more than the officially budgeted £55.7 billion. An internal government document produced just before the HS2 scheme was finally approved by Parliament in 2017 suggested the final figure could increase to more than £80 billion.Lord Hammond told us it would be unrealistic for every bit of treasury modelling to go before parliament.