Over the last week, Sir Keir Starmer’s government has fired the starting gun on the biggest domestic fight of this parliament on his highest priority issue.
Yet it’s a battle this government is far from certain to win, and the manner in which they’ve entered combat makes ultimate success less likely.
The outcome matters to every citizen in the country but we won’t find out who has won for perhaps a year, maybe longer – such is the complexity of what’s involved to reach ministers’ stated destination.
And given this debate matters to every single viewer, we at Sky News are going to follow every twist and turn each step of the way and explain what is going on – and who is winning.
The promise, from the prime minister, is that he and his government will be “taking on the Nimbys and a broken system that has slowed down our progress as a nation”.
In other words, the PM is promising to smash up the current system of checks and permissions for new development and infrastructure and instead change the rules to build, build, build – at a pace and on a scale that has not been seen in recent decades.
Housing, road schemes, power stations, rail lines, infrastructure of all sorts, shapes and sizes should – if Sir Keir and his Chancellor Rachel Reeves are right – create a permanent legacy to future generations that this government leaves behind all over the UK.
As Donald Trump promises his citizens a “great beautiful golden age”, it suddenly feels from articles and speeches by government ministers as if those at the top of His Majesty’s government are reading from the same script.
On Wednesday, Ms Reeves becomes the face of this revolution as she promises she will unblock the tangled web that ministers think holds back building, development and growth.
Her speech will draw together several of the announcements from the last week, signal the government’s willingness to look favourably at any fresh application for a third runway from Heathrow and…
