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Moves to lift planning logjam to help reach target for 1.5 million new homes

Agnieszka’s £2,500 dress was destroyed along with most of her and her fiance’s belongings

Residents Lukasz and Agnieszka say they ‘lost everything’ in the blaze

Exclusive: Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack told The Independent that it was ‘a miracle’ nobody was killed in the blaze in Dagenham over the bank holiday weekend

Deputy PM visited Dagenham, east London, after fire tore through block of flats undergoing remedial works

There is no comparison between Labour’s transparent union funding and murky donations to the Tories – but stopping it all would be the best way to clean up politics, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Now we see the consequences of not reading the small print. Tucked away in plain sight in the Labour manifesto was a New Deal for Working People. And what nobody bothered to read was the bit that guaranteed that employees would have the right to ask for flexible working from…

The perks of being an MP, from VIP seats and free clothes to helicopter rides

MORE than half of people think the UK is “moving in the wrong direction”, according to a new poll which shows a drop in favourability for Keir…

Sir Keir Starmer’s approval ratings have dropped from plus 7 to 0 but he is still more popular than Rishi Sunak

Angela Rayner is just one of the high-profile women to be photographed with summer’s coolest accessory: a piece of rope that connects your phone to your person. But Ellie Muir isn’t a fan – why doesn’t womenswear come with pockets instead?