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PM and Cabinet rally round Rayner amid property tax row

The Prime Minister and Chancellor Rachel Reeves gave the Deputy Prime Minister their ‘full confidence’.

Evening Standard

Voices: Have Labour’s big guns started to turn on Angela Rayner?

COMMENT: By offering only lukewarm and limited support to the deputy prime minister, cabinet colleagues could be accused of giving her a little nudge along the gangplank towards the drop, says John Rentoul

The Independent UK

Rachel Reeves declares confidence in Angela Rayner after stamp duty ‘error’

Chancellor defends deputy prime minister as more details emerge about timeline of legal advice

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Rayner lawyers ‘made scapegoats’ and ‘did not give her tax advice’ on flat at centre of row: UK politics live

Angela Rayner said she was given inaccurate legal advice that led her to underpay tax when buying a flat in Hove in May

The Independent UK

Ministers defend Rayner in tax row as fresh property purchase details emerge

Sources close to the Deputy Prime Minister said she was given three separate pieces of legal advice before buying an £800,000 property in Hove.

Evening Standard

Starmer declines to say if he will sack Rayner if she is found to have broken ministerial code – as it happened

Keir Starmer has said that he expects to get the report from his ethics adviser on Angela Rayner quickly

The Guardian - UK

Starmer ‘determined’ to save Angela Rayner amid tax dodge probe

Prime minister reportedly fears he will hand a ‘scalp’ to critics by sacking his deputy

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Up to 7,000 more school nursery places to be rolled out from September 2026

The Department for Education has announced £45 million in funding will create 300 further new or expanded school-based nurseries.

Evening Standard

Parents and children who struggle at school need to be supported, not shamed

Letters: Katherine Green says it’s not a question of ‘doing more’, while Kimberly Hind shares her battle for her deafblind son. Plus letters from Marjorie Wallace and Prof John Gallacher

The Guardian - UK

‘No place in children’s hands’: under-16s in England to be banned from buying energy drinks

Government to ban sale of energy drinks with more than 150mg of caffeine, citing concerns over obesity and lack of concentration

The Guardian - UK

Phillipson 'Ashamed' of UK Child Poverty: Faith Leaders Urge Labour to Act or Risk Education Collapse

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson admits shame over 4.5M children in poverty. Faith leaders demand scrapping two-child cap

International Business Times UK

The Guardian view on free nursery places: risks as well as rewards must be monitored

Editorial: Ministers are giving working families more support, but not a new public service

The Guardian - UK

Forget Orwell’s ‘Two Minutes Hate’ – the immigration debate shows real loathing

Since the summer recess the public discourse, stirred by Nigel Farage’s weekly press conferences, has altered radically

The Guardian - UK

PM backs Angela Rayner as deputy faces growing pressure over property portfolio

Conservatives have called for Ms Rayner to face an ethics inquiry after it was reported she saved £40,000 in stamp duty when she bought an £800,000 flat in Brighton

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Angela Rayner ‘clear she followed rules’ when buying Hove flat, says Bridget Phillipson

Education secretary defends her cabinet colleague against claims she avoided stamp duty when buying property

Evening Standard

Reform UK accused by Cabinet minister of ‘whipping up anger’ over asylum hotels

But deputy leader Richard Tice said it is ‘ridiculous’ to suggest Reform has encouraged the violent scenes at some protests.

The Independent UK

‘It is about a balance of rights’ Education secretary on community concerns in Epping

Bridget Phillipson was repeatedly asked wether she believed the rights of asylum seekers were more important than the interests of local communities.

Evening Standard

Rayner has right to spend money as she chooses, says Phillipson in row over flat

The Education Secretary said the Deputy Prime Minister has insisted she followed the rules over her £800,000 purchase in Hove.

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The Independent UK

Reform and Farage are making anger over migrant crisis worse, minister says

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Badenoch in pledge to ‘get all our oil and gas out of the North Sea’

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said a Conservative administration would maximise extraction.

The Guardian - UK

Bridget Phillipson: parents must do more about bad behaviour and attendance in schools

Education secretary targets 800 schools as she attempts to turn around post-Covid trends with enhanced support

The Independent UK

Farage and Reform ‘whipping up anger’ on migrants, cabinet minister warns

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson claimed Mr Farage has ‘no interest’ in finding solutions to the migrant crisis and small boats

Evening Standard

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson ‘ashamed’ of child poverty levels

The minister said the Government was looking at every way of reducing levels of child poverty, including benefits changes.

Evening Standard

Labour accused of plotting car park ‘spy cameras’ and new fines for motorists

Blueprints drawn up by government officials include proposals to install numberplate recognition cameras in car parks

Evening Standard

Scheme offering free meals and activities to poorer pupils in holidays extended

It comes as working parents in England will be able to access 30 hours of funded childcare a week for children older than nine months from Monday.

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