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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

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?

Exclusive: Centre for Cities analysis shows more new towns would have to be built than ever before to dent 1.5m target

JOHN Swinney confronted Angela Rayner over Labour’s cuts to pensioner benefits during a meeting in Edinburgh.

We are in desperate need of new homes — a fact on which Brits tend to agree. They tend to disagree, though, over where to put them, and these battles generally concentrate on the edges of cities. Take the Government’s new plan to build on grey-belt land — “poor quality…

Tories acuse London mayor of ‘unacceptably low’ levels of affordable housebuilding in capital

Labour’s proposals for reform are a start, but we need the system to be more ambitious, more imaginative and more proactive, says writer Phineas Harper

The election of the Labour government has been accompanied by a renewed appetite to deal with England’s housing crisis. Among the first of its policy initiatives, announced by deputy prime minister Angela Rayner, is the reintroduction of a national housing target – 1.5 million new homes over the period of…