Angela Rayner vowed to take on the nimbys stopping new homes being built, so Cabinet pal Ed Miliband must be number one on her hit list. Windy Mili, who wants to cover the countryside in turbines, is against luxury flats being built in his leafy neighbourhood. Or, to be specific, wife Dame Justine Thornton, a Labour campaigner and High Court judge, has written a letter of objection to the development.

She said the five-storey block of flats was “too tall, too bulky and too dense given the context of the surrounding houses and the wider conservation area”. Maybe there is a genuine split on the issue in the Miliband household over whether it should or should not go ahead. It’s hardly unheard of for husbands and wives to disagree. But it comes to something when a Cabinet minister who has vowed to take on the “blockers” cannot persuade his nearest and dearest that a tiny local development is a good thing.

Rayner cannot be best pleased. She has made it her mission to deliver 1.5 million new homes by the next election. Apparently so serious and urgent is the need for new housing and infrastructure that some of the nation’s green belt must be sacrificed.

It was only back in March that the Communities Secretary pleaded with MPs to “back the builders” rather than the nimbys when she introduced the legislation in the Commons. Surely she must have had a quiet word in Miliband’s ear, telling him his family should back off.

But Rayner can’t really argue with earnest Ed. She objected twice to 200 new homes being built in her constituency.

It must fall, then, to the boss Sir Keir Starmer to tell Miliband it’s not a good look to stop new families moving into the beautiful conservation area in North London that he is lucky enough to live in.

Room for two kitchens, don’t forget. When Miliband and his wife were pictured in a tiny, austere-looking cupboard with little more than an oven and a plastic laundry basket during his campaign to be leader, it emerged that they had another, much larger, one that they had kept the cameras away from.

Starmer has promised to “bulldoze” through the opposition to new developments and insisted he is a yimby – “yes in my backyard”. But sadly, Starmer will also struggle to deliver the message to the Miliband household because he has also objected to development – in the form of HS2.

When he arrived in Parliament, he told MPs he opposed the high speed rail link “on cost and on merit”, saying: “The impact of HS2 on my constituency – on residents, businesses and the environment – will be devastating.” It turns out Miliband joins 13 of his Cabinet colleagues in wanting to stop the diggers turning up near their drive.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper objected to 400 new homes in her West Yorkshire constituency. Foreign Secretary David Lammy opposed plans for new luxury flats in Tottenham.

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy tried to stop thousands of new houses being built in Wigan. And Environment Secretary Steve Reed went against a plan to turn a disused bungalow into flats in London.

The list goes on and shows that, as always with Labour, it’s “do as I say, not as I do”. It’s what makes the Left generally so unlikeable.

Each of the planning objections made by members of the Cabinet may have merit, but so do most planning objections. Who wants an ugly block of flats thrown up in their leafy street of multi-million pound houses? No one.

Neither do they want a HMO forced on their suburban cul-de-sac – nor pylons strewn across the local beauty spot.

But we are being told to suck it up, get over your fuddy-duddy objections, think of the young people. And that would be almost bearable if the people at the top weren’t such hypocrites about it all. They have good reasons for objecting. You are a nimby and a blocker.