Brown accused of spin over home building targets

Gordon Brown was on Friday accused of “spin” and a “lack of ambition and urgency” by Britain’s leading property organisation over the new housebuilding targets he has set.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said on Friday that the prime minister’s plans to increase housebuilding from 200,000 to 240,000 new homes a year by 2016 represented a drop in rate of growth of recent housebuilding.