The housing minister says he didn’t “remorse the choice” to approve a £1bn property scheme in east London on a brownfield web site.
Robert Jenrick had overruled a planning inspector and gave permission to the undertaking from a Tory donor, however later overturned his personal resolution.
He instructed the In the present day programme: “I want I hadn’t been sat subsequent to a developer at an occasion and I remorse sharing textual content messages with him afterwards.”
Mr Jenrick was being requested about new powers to hurry up planning purposes.