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The 30-year-old aide among controversial names on Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list

A FORMER aide to Boris Johnson has become the youngest life peer in British history, after officially being sworn into the unelected chamber.

It’s been a topsy-turvy week for politics, with three big by-elections and a few controversial pledges. Although Labour stormed to victory in Selby and Ainsty, leader Keir Starmer found himself on the ropes when he promised to maintain a deeply unpopular two-child benefit cap policy.

Our rental situation is better than most, yet we still found ourselves scrubbing mould from the windows to protect our son’s tiny lungs, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

In today’s newsletter: a pair of major defeats for the Conservatives, but the PM will be relieved to have at least retained Boris Johnson’s old seat

Ministers were also paid more than £400,000 in severance packages.

TORY MPs scooped hundreds of thousands of pounds in severance payments thanks to the year of political turmoil they caused ...

Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Kwasi Kwarteng and Michael Gove are among the senior figures who accepted severance payments after leaving office.

Pressure to hand back payments grows as documents reveal administrative costs of huge turnover of ministers and advisers