THE Liberal Democrats would tackle the housing crisis by building 150,000 affordable homes a year if it won the next General Election, according to MP Layla Moran.

She told GB News: “The main target that I think we need to talk about more is 150,000 social homes to be built a year. Now, that’s really ambitious, that hasn’t happened since at the very least the 1970s.

“But the real issue is getting them built and not in the hands of the developers but in the hands of local communities and local councils. So we’re really proud in the area of the vale and the south in Oxfordshire, we have one of the highest rates of house building in the country.

“We’ve achieved that by having broad community support for what we’re doing and lots and lots of consultation. We are trying to get to a point where we deliver the infrastructure and this is the hard bit, delivering the infrastructure before the houses are built.”

Asked about migration, during a discussion with Camilla Tominey, she continued: “First of all, we have to have a look at who’s actually coming across on these boats. The Government’s own statistics show that the vast majority most recently have been coming from places like Afghanistan.

“Now people will remember the very rapid withdrawal where we said that we would help anyone who helped the British while we were out there, has actually fallen flat on its face. And we’ve left many people there under huge strain persecuted by the Taliban that are desperate for somewhere else to go.

“And because they’ve got family here, some of them, they’ve ended up wanting to come here. So I think we’ve got to set up safe and legal routes, particularly for those places where there is a lot of disruption.”