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[Harriet Line @HarriLine]

EXC Rachel Reeves has broken housing regulations by unlawfully renting out her family home without a licence after entering Downing Street: Chancellor faces ethics probe https://t.co/mCU7NQ3g1V

[Jack Surfleet @jacksurfleet]

Saturday's DAILY MAIL: 'Liar' Reeves must go now
#TomorrowsPapersToday

[Harriet Line @HarriLine]

No need to wait for Rachel Reeves to unveil her Budget to see what taxes are going up, as the OBR document has been accidentally released early

[Louis O'Brien @Lou_obrien19]

Tuesday's MAIL: Now Reeves hits prudent savers #TomorrowsPapersToday

[George Mann @sgfmann]

Daily Mail: BANISHED #TomorrowsPapersToday

[Harriet Line @HarriLine]

In her letter to the PM, she adds: 'I accept it was our responsibility to secure the licence. I also take responsibility for not finding this information yesterday and bringing it to your attention.'

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Reeves now says: 'Today the letting agency and my husband have found correspondence confirming that on 17th July 2024 the letting agent said to my husband that a Selective Licence would be required and agreed that the agency would apply for the licence on our behalf.'

[Harriet Line @HarriLine]

Lettings agency involved in Rachel Reeves' rental arrangements says 'we alert all our clients to the need for a licence'... but Reeves said last night that 'we were not aware that a licence was necessary'

[Harriet Line @HarriLine]

Lettings agency involved in Rachel Reeves' rental arrangements says 'we alert all our clients to the need for a licence'... but Reeves said last night that 'we were not aware that a licence was necessary'

[Geri Scott @Geri_E_L_Scott]

After @HarriLine’s excellent scoop, No 10 is now in the perplexing position of refusing to say whether Keir Starmer or Laurie Magnus saw any proof from Rachel Reeves for her version of events over her rental licence, whether they believe she did or did not break the ministerial code, or whether she’d have to resign if she was fined for the breach, despite the PM’s belief that lawmakers cannot be lawbreakers. Southwark Council could levy a fine of up to £30k…

A spokesman for the PM repeatedly said the chancellor’s error was “inadvertent” and she did not know a licence was required.

But asked whether the PM, as a former DPP, thought ignorance of the law was a defence he said: “No.”

He said the PM was satisfied an apology was a “sufficient resolution”.

[Alfie Tobutt @AlfieTobutt]

DAILY MAIL: Reeves illegally rented out her own family home #TomorrowsPapersToday

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

The Prime Minister must launch a full investigation.

He once said “lawmakers can’t be lawbreakers”.

If, as it appears, the Chancellor has broken the law, then he will have to show he has the backbone to act.

[Louis O'Brien @Lou_obrien19]

Tuesday's MAIL: Threat of a mansion tax sparks house market chaos #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Sir Keir Starmer says he is ‘deeply disappointed’ by the Caerphilly by-election result, and says ‘we need to reflect and regroup and double down on the delivery in Wales’.

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President Zelenskyy, speaking alongside Keir Starmer at the Foreign Office, says there must be ‘no option left’ for Russia except to end the war and return peace to Ukraine

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🚨 The Tories will abolish stamp duty, Kemi Badenoch announces to conference

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Kemi Badenoch says the Tories will ban doctors from going on strike if her party wins the next election, as she delivers her conference speech in Manchester

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Kemi Badenoch insists she is right to take time to announce policies as Tory leader: ‘It’s not about being the first to announce a policy, it’s about having the best policy’ @bbclaurak

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Keir Starmer says that the ‘politics of grievance’ is the ‘biggest threat’ faced by Britain ‘even in a world this dangerous’

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‘I’m not sticking my fingers in my ears in the slightest,’ insists Keir Starmer as he’s challenged about criticism of his leadership by @bbclaurak

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Starmer repeatedly says the ‘manifesto stands’ when asked whether he is planning to hike VAT at the Budget