Sébastien Lecornu has..

Plaid Cymru’s conference in Swansea last weekend marked a clear shift in tone, less about constitutional ambition and more about competence and delivery. Under the banner “New Leadership for Wales,” Plaid leader Rhun ap Iorwerth promised to fix the things people actually see – the NHS, housing, inequality – themes that wouldn’t look out of place in a Welsh Labour manifesto. The difference, he said, is that Plaid would finally deliver where Labour has run out of steam. It’s a neat line.

Miley Cyrus has a new album out, a Frozen film is heading your way and Help to Buy is going to unlock the housing market. You’d be forgiven for reading these statements and mentally placing yourself in 2013, but these are all very much relevant to the here and now of 2025, because twelve years after it was first launched by George Osborne – which is coincidentally how long it takes to get Let It Go out of your head – Help to Buy is making a return of sorts.

Ministers and their civil servants were apparently working through the weekend to produce wording for new amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill- which is already making its way through the processes at quite a pace. This comes following Steve Reed’s big splash as new housing secretary at Labour Party Conference: he signed MAGA-style red caps and bucket hats emblazoned with ‘Build baby, build!’.