Matthew Pennycook, the housing minister, is now joining Kay Burley on Sky News Breakfast.

Asked if the government will be ripping up environmental laws in order to boot building, the minister denied this is the case.

“We’re not ripping up environmental laws,” he says.

“If environmental groups want to bring one challenge, if it doesn’t have a solid basis in the eyes of the judge in question, two if it does, but we’re removing the initial paper application.”

But what happens with wildlife surveys?

They can continue to take place, Mr Pennycook says.

“We’re not fundamentally reducing the number of judicial review commission attempts.”

He is then asked if he agrees with Chancellor Rachel Reeves that growth in UK is a priority over other pledges – like net zero.

“I don’t think it’s about playing one of these off against the other,” the minister says.

“The chancellor is right, we’ve been clear about this from the moment we came into office, growth is the number one priority of this government and will remain so.”

However, Mr Pennycook insists Labour is “accelerating” its plan for net zero through the clean power mission.

He reiterates that the two things “don’t need to be set off against each other, but growth is a priority”.

The minister refuses to comment on speculation around the potential expansion of Heathrow Airport.