KernowDamo: Zack Polanski has lobbed a three-year rent brake grenade straight at Camden Labour’s housing record, just in time for the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. Sagal Abdi-Wali, Labour’s candidate, is busy waving around her supposed £670 million council housing budget, but a 2025 Camden FOI, dug up by Paul Holden, reveals the truth: 650 council homes built, 500 bulldozed. Net gain? 10 houses a year over the last 15 years. About as impressive as a soggy Rich Tea biscuit. So why did Camden manage to conjure up so little actual housing? What exactly was Abdi-Wali doing as the so-called Better Homes lead? And will a rent cap finally deliver for renters what Labour keeps promising but never quite manages to find down the back of the sofa? Keir Starmer’s former seat is now the stage for Labour’s latest episode of ‘Promises, Promises’. It’s almost like he never left.