Boris on Housing: "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning"

• Boris wants stamp duty cash to build homes to avoid crisis
• He warns London is in urgent need of 1m more homes in next 25 years
• Boris: "Give us the tools and we'll get on with the job"

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"Boris Johnson today called on the Treasury to hand over £1.3 billion a year in London stamp duty receipts to fund a massive house-building programme in the capital.

"The Mayor wants to wrest control of tax revenues from property sales from George Osborne, to address a chronic lack of affordable housing. He warns that London faces a housing crisis, unless one million homes are built in 25 years."