RIBA president Alan Jones has given a luke-warm welcome to Labour’s general election manifesto but criticised it for not spelling out how it would raise design quality.

In its manifesto, unveiled yesterday by Jeremy Corbyn, the party promised a £75bn “housing revolution”, along with what it said would be “the biggest council housebuilding programme in decades”.

Labour said if it wins the general election on December 12 it would commit to building 100,000 council homes a year through to the end of the next parliament.

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