The Latest Breaking News from Angela Rayner

COMMENT: Party strategists are busy working out how to escape the chancellor’s doom loop of tax rises – and to crush damaging speculation about her boss’s ability to lead his party into the next general election. But the race to replace the PM may already have begun, says Andrew Grice

Sir James Cleverly has demanded the Government share its assessments of how the move would hit local newspapers.

Angela Rayner’s proposed reforms are ill-conceived and fail to address the system’s inherent unfairness, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Ministers face backlash after analysis of proposed shake-up finds more than 10% drop in finance for some areas

Angela Rayner has asked China to un-redact parts of the plans that had been ‘greyed out’ in the application

Unlike many of my contemporaries on the opposite side of the political divide, I don’t underestimate Angela Rayner. Which other figure active in politics today could leave school at 16 — without any qualifications — and then rise to become one of the most powerful Cabinet ministers in the land?

Analysts say foreign secretary’s empathy and pragmatism make relationship-forming easy despite political divides

The highest estimate could see wages rise over £1,200 a year

Ms Rayner has given Beijing two weeks to explain why parts of its plans for the sprawling new embassy site are blacked out.