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Feb 20, 2024 | secnewgate.co.uk | Ben Monteith |Allie Renison Even

First published in Property Week Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader and likely incoming Secretary State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, recently argued our housing crisis is “a real problem of supply.” She continued: “[People] are living in homes they know are not good for their health… they also know if they raise these concerns and the property is condemned, they’ll end up homeless… or because we’ve not been tackling supply, some people have been taken 20, 30, even 200 miles...

Feb 20, 2024 | secnewgate.co.uk | Chris White |Allie Renison Even

It’s easy to forget with all the heat and light in the media coverage of the future of the Speaker that yesterday’s debate in the Commons was supposed to be about the Gaza and the conflict between Israel and Hamas.   Yet in reality it really wasn’t. Instead of the Commons debating the merits of how to use diplomacy to bring an end to conflict and bring humanitarian relief to those affected, we ended up with a deeply unedifying political row.  How did we get here?

Feb 15, 2024 | secnewgate.co.uk | Chris White |Allie Renison Even

Conventional wisdom suggests that politically this should be a good week for Keir Starmer. Polling puts Labour twenty points ahead in the polls as two winnable by-elections take place today, and the UK slipping into recession has left the Prime Minister red-faced. Yet what should have been a political open goal has proved anything but.