Thank you Mr.Speaker. I want to thank all those that took part in of an enormous democratic

exercise in this country, which concluded with me being the leader of the Labour party

and leader of the opposition. I think we can be very proud of the numbers of people who

engaged and took part in all those debates. I've taken part in many events around the

country and had conversations with many people about what they thought about this place,

our parliament, our democracy and our conduct within this place. And many told me they thought

that Prime Minister's question time was too theatrical, that parliament was out of touch

and too theatrical and they wanted things done differently, but above all, they wanted

their voice heard in parliament. So I thought, my first Prime Minister's question time, I'll

do it in a slightly different way and i'm sure the Prime Minister can absolutely welcome

this as he welcomed this idea in 2005. But something seems to have happened to his memory

during that period. And so I sent out an email to thousands of people and asked them what

questions they would like to put to the Prime Minister and I received 40000 replies. Now

there isn't time to ask 40000 questions today, and our rules limit us to 6 and so, I would

like to start with the first one which is about housing. two and half thousand people

emailed me about the housing crisis in this country. And I ask one from a woman called

Marie, who says:

"What does the government intend to do with the chronic lack of affordable housing and

extortionate rents charged by some private sector landlords in this country?" Prime Minister...

Prime Minister!

Well first of all Mr.Speaker, can I congratulate the honourable gentlemen on his resounding

victory in the Labour leadership election. Can I welcome him to the front bench and to

these exchanges, I know we will have many strong disagreements i'm sure between us at

these exchanges but where we can work together in the national interest, we should do so

and I wish him well in his job. If we are able to change Prime Minister's questions

and make it a more genuine exercise in asking questions and answering questions, no one

would be more delighted than me. I actually felt, I felt last week when we discussed a

substantial issue with substantial questions and proper answers was good for our house,

good for our democracy and so I welcome it. Now let me answer very directly Marie's question

because we do need to see more affordable housing in our country, we delivered 260000

affordable housing units in the last parliament, we built more council houses in our country

in the 13 previous years had been managed but I recognize much more needs to be done.

That means carrying on with our reform of the planning system, it means encouraging

the building industry to come up with innovative schemes like starter homes, but above all,

it means continuing to support the aspirations of people to be able to afford their own home

which is where help to buy and schemes like that come in. And I say to the honourable

gentlemen, we won't get Britain building unless we keep our economy going.

Jeremy Corbyn!

I thank the Prime Minister for that answer and I thank him for his commitment we're going

to try and do Prime Minister's question time in a more adult way then we have done in the past.