Last week I commented on Boris's decision to allow Tory Council Hammersmith & Fulham to approve a major new housing scheme to be built without any social housing provision. "Inside Housing" now reports from an unnamed "London Labour Party" source that if Boris intends to "dump" all new social housing in the east of London then he was "lining up for a fight". Another article quotes Andy Slaughter, Labour MP for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush, said: `[Mr] Johnson's rejection of his own professional officers' advice shows that party politics, rather than housing policy, are determining decisions at City Hall".

Read a welcome account in “Inside Housing” about research by the “Equality & Human Rights Commission” into the British housing allocations system.

Unlike the nonsense and “Big lies” pedalled by the BNP, the commission reported categorically that there was “no evidence in the research of any abuse of the system including “queue jumping” to the significant detriment of any group including white families”.

The reality is that “new migrants made up less than 2 per cent of the total number of people in social housing throughout the UK. Around 90 per cent of those living in social housing are born in the UK”.

There is still of course the problem that the perception of “queue jumping” and unfairness still exists. This report will help tackle this mis-perception, although I doubt it has been widely covered in “The Sun” or the “Daily Mail”?

For decades we have also had a corrosive policy of allowing Council homes to be sold under the “right to buy” without these rented homes being replaced. This has led to not only rapidly changing communities but scarcity and perceived competition between communities for homes and shelter.

Thankfully we are now planning to build new homes in London (Ken willing).