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Housebuilders have warned the government’s budget watchdog that ministers’ target of building 1.5 million homes in England by the end of the decade is too optimistic. The Home Builders Federation (HBF) has written to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to say that unless the government does something to boost affordability for first time buyers…

Cooper said energy network firms, the private companies that own the pylons, cables and pipes supplying domestic users, “operate as total monopolies” and her party believed the regulator should force them “to pay back” what she said were windfall profits and not the product of investments they had made.

The assembly, dominated by lawmakers who are allies of former president Nicolás Maduro, passed the bill with the backing of interim President Delcy Rodríguez, who assumed office after Maduro was seized in a US military operation earlier this month.