The first thing Starmer Labour will do is appoint a former Toryminister to weaken the planning system requirements for local approvalof construction projects.

The change might be good or bad -- the article gives few details.Tories changed these rules to make it particularly easy to blockapproval of wind power generators, and reversing that would surelybe a good thing.

Under the Tory government, regulations for construction werecircumvented and disobeyed, resulting in building many buildings withflammable materials. One of them had a big fire in which manyresidents died.

Enforcement of safety regulations is not precisely the same issue asgetting approval for a project, but they are related and they are partof the same system. A government that is gung ho for "easingregulations" is likely be insufficiently careful about which ones.