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b'You know, it\\u2019s easy to forget, after the coughing and the comedian with the P45 and the bit where the sign started disintegrating, that there was a far bigger problem with Theresa May\\u2019s speech: it was bad. To be specific, the housing policies the prime minister unveiled yesterday were in no way an adequate response to the housing crisis \\u2013 which, you\\u2019ll recall, is disadvantaging the young, holding back our productivity, and (though I don\\u2019t care so much about this part) wrecking the Conservative party\\u2019s electoral chances. It is in some ways May\\u2019s good luck that nobody will have been paying the slightest attention to the actual content of her speech, or they might have noticed quite how completely bloody useless it was. Anyway: this seemed like a good moment to drag Stephen Bush back into the podcasting basement to discuss all this. We cover the Conservative party\\u2019s long-standing failure to tackle this issue; our suggested solutions; and how exactly we can get rid of buy-to-let. All that, and you can learn about \\u201cthe incident\\u201d, too. Skylines is the podcast from the New Statesman\'s cities site, CityMetric. It\'s hosted by Jonn Elledge.

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