Michael Gove relaxes planning rules to create more homes in city centres

However, in an early sign that Mr Gove’s plans may attract criticism from the government’s own MPs, Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire Anthony Browne has tweeted: “I will do everything I can to stop the government’s nonsense plans to impose mass housebuilding on Cambridge, where all major developments are now blocked by the Environment Agency because we have quite literally run out of water.”