Manage and monitor

摘要

John prescott, the deputy prime minister and Britain's environmental planner-in-chief, must envy his predecessors. Clement Attlee's government was elected in 1945 on a promise to build "five million homes in quick time." It fell a bit short of that target, but house building proceeded at an explosive rate in the post-war years: 55,000 in 1946, 140,000 in 1947, 228,000 in 1948. The Conservative Party conference in 1951 demanded 300,000 new homes a year.