RENTING regulations and more council houses would help tackle York's growing housing crisis, according to embattled Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Mr Corbyn, in York on Friday evening, said he would lead an "interventionist" government which could take on some of York's biggest problems like high housing costs and low wages - with laws lengthening private tenancies and stabilising rents, and bringing in stronger employment protection.

He said: "York like Oxford, Cambridge, and parts of London has a problem of insufficiency of council houses, a big private rented sector, and a large student population on top of that, with inadequate student accommodation so they spill over into the private rented sector."

More council houses and an end to the forced sell off of social housing would help solve that, he said.

Mr Corbyn was touring Yorkshire as he fights for re-election as party leader, and pledged £500bn for a national investment bank "to ensure no community is left behind".

Speaking ahead of a rally in St Helen's Square, he said he regretted that 172 of his MPs had voted against him in a motion of no confidence, but would triumph again in the leadership election.

"The Parliamentary party is an important part of the Labour party, but it's not the whole party.

"I am very confident that once this election is over we will be able to work effectively in Parliament again to defeat the Tories again as we have done on working tax credits and personal independent payments."

"Blue on blue" attacks dominated coverage of the pro EU campaigns before the referendum, Mr Corbyn said, and he defended his own record saying he had done more media appearances and public campaigning for the pro EU campaign than anyone else in the Labour movement.

Seeing many Labour heartlands voting strongly to Leave was "disappointing", he said, but came down to anger at feeling "left behind".

He said: "There has to be a process around investment, ending the under investment in local government, because a lot of anger relates around schools, social care, the consistent cuts made to local government by central government."

Post-Brexit, he said universities like York's needed to be guaranteed investment and research funding to make sure the knock-on benefits of high-tech, high wage jobs do not disappear.