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Budget will need difficult tax, welfare and spending decisions, Reeves warns

Chancellor’s comments come as housing minister says government will stand firm on cutting winter fuel allowance

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve met seven housing ministers, one of them twice’: the head of Homes England on the battle to build

In the light of Labour’s ambitious housing programme, Peter Denton, the man charged with getting residential projects started for the private sector, has his work cut out

The Guardian - UK

‘Labour can’t have their cake and eat it’: housing crisis will force party into planning rows

The shadow housing minister’s objection to high-rise flats in his constituency is typical of the dilemmas Keir Starmer, who has pledged to build 1.5m new homes, will face

The Guardian - UK

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General Election 2024 London seats: Who is my MP in...Greenwich and Woolwich?

Evening Standard analysis of key seats in London for the July 4 General Election

Evening Standard

BBC election debate: Penny Mordaunt says Sunak’s D-day snub was ‘very wrong’ in seven-party clash – as it happened

Mordaunt, for the Tories, faced Labour’s Angela Rayner, Reform’s Nigel Farage and candidates from Lib Dems, SNP, Greens and Plaid Cymru

The Guardian - UK

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announces date for 2024 spring Budget

Tories expected to seek tax cuts in appeal to voters as they founder 20 points behind Labour in polls

The Independent UK

Tories to promise more help for first-time buyers in bid to turn around polling woes

Plans to help people onto the property ladder could be announced in the March Budget

The Independent UK

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Gove’s leasehold reform bill does not ban leaseholds on new-build houses

Rush to write legislation means clauses to ban the leaseholds will be added via amendments

The Guardian - UK

Government urged to remove remaining unsafe cladding quickly

The call came as Communities Secretary Michael Gove said progress on high-rise buildings has not been made ‘fast enough’.

The Independent UK

Two-thirds of London boroughs home to tower with ‘Grenfell cladding’

Labour’s shadow housing minister Matthew Pennycook said it “beggars’ belief” that so many still have deadly Grenfell-style ACM cladding

Evening Standard

UK government to remove licensing requirements for landlords housing asylum seekers

Changes to allow landlords to house asylum seekers for two years without an HMO licence

The Independent UK

Government to remove licensing requirements for landlords housing asylum seekers

The changes would allow landlords to house asylum seekers for two years without an HMO licence.

The Independent UK

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