Angela Rayner has now admitted the Government is faltering on its promise of building 1.5 million homes. England is building around 203,000 a year, well short of the 300,000 needed.

For people hoping to buy their first home or move somewhere bigger, the reality is simple: Labour’s promises are not translating into homes.

We can see it here. Homes are not selling in Bordon, while one of the biggest developments in Farnham’s history remains largely unbuilt. The market is telling us something, and Labour needs to start listening.

Instead, Labour has created a crisis for local government, with councils struggling to meet housing targets that often take little account of local circumstances.

Poor delivery in Waverley under the Liberal Democrats has made this worse, meaning developments are being pushed through in the wrong places, while East Hampshire’s division between land inside and outside the South Downs National Park puts disproportionate pressure elsewhere.

Our specially protected countryside makes building at scale extraordinarily difficult. Development can require expensive mitigation that itself needs land. It is complicated, and that is precisely why Labour’s simplistic promises were never credible.

I am pleased Dockenfield looks set to join the Surrey Hills National Landscape, with Natural England’s proposal now before the Secretary of State. But I am concerned about many of our other areas, like Liphook. Sitting on the edge of the South Downs National Park, it is being targeted for further development. That means more pressure on local infrastructure, while putting pressure on the park itself. It is a double whammy.

Reports suggest the Treasury is considering lowering the "mansion tax" threshold to £1.5 million ahead of the Budget. That would catch many more homes in our part of Surrey and Hampshire. Labour will not make the decisions needed to build the homes we need, but seems happy to find new ways to tax those who already own one.

Were it not for a litany of other high-profile absurdities, such as paying to give away the Chagos Islands, housebuilding could just be one of this Government’s biggest ongoing failures.

The Conservatives would take a different approach.

We will scrap stamp duty on primary residences. The national average saving would be £4,593, but it is far higher here: £17,671 for the average buyer in Waverley and £12,027 in East Hampshire.

That is a lot of money. It could be the difference that allows a growing family to move somewhere bigger. High stamp duties in our area bite particularly hard, adding another barrier for the young families who keep our schools, shops and villages going.

Labour’s answer is to promise homes it cannot deliver and look for more ways to tax people. Ours is to let people get on.

We will build where homes are needed, prioritise brownfield land to protect the Green Belt, and properly reform planning so it works with communities rather than against them.

That means homes in the right places, not simply more ludicrous targets from Westminster.

That is how we make homeownership a reality again.