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The Deputy Prime Minister referred herself to the ethics watchdog after admitting an underpayment of stamp duty on a flat purchase.

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Firm that handled purchase of her £800,000 Hove flat say 'we did not and never have given tax or trust advice' as Sir Keir Starmer declines to rule out sacking his deputy

‘We’re being made scapegoats – we’re not qualified to give advice on trust and tax matters,’ say conveyancers

The Prime Minister said the First Minister was using the constitution to distract from his record in Government.

French president says allies would either deploy ‘reassurance force’ troops to Ukraine, or be present in the area on land, sea or in the air

If there is any ambiguity over the verdict, then the deputy prime minister’s future will depend on voters’ feelings towards her, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Editorial: Labour’s strategy of accepting the premise of Nigel Farage’s anti-immigrant arguments and only querying his methods is self-defeating and dangerous

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The deputy prime minister has had too many property tangles for her to continue in the role of housing secretary. In a forthcoming ministerial reshuffle, she should expect to lose that portfolio – though not necessarily suffer a humiliating demotion

The conveyancer used by the Deputy Prime Minister to purchase her Hove flat said it did not give advice on trust and tax matters.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has described her plan to “maximise extraction” of the UK’s oil and gas from the North Sea as a “common sense” energy policy.