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The Latest Breaking News from Michael Gove

Sunak reveals plan to boost brownfield homebuilding in England

Measures would include making it easier to get planning permission to build on derelict sites in urban areas

The Guardian - UK

Michael Gove says no-fault evictions will be banned this year

UK housing minister promises section 21 evictions in England will have ended by time of general election

The Guardian - UK

Gove says Sunak was right to attack Labour U-turns after trans jibe criticism

The PM’s comment, made while the mother of murdered transgender teenager Brianna Ghey was in Parliament, sparked a backlash.

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Local authority leaders criticise Sunak’s call for ‘restrained’ council tax rises

Prime minister’s comments ‘remarkable’ given government cuts to town hall funding in England, say LGA bosses

The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch says death threats intensified after Nadine Dorries book

Business secretary says conspiracy theory about ‘plotters’ dangerous in hands of violent, unbalanced people

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak criticises local authorities for requesting steep council tax rises

Criticism comes as councils struggle to cope with shortfalls that have left several on brink of bankruptcy

The Guardian - UK

Expensive and loathed, ‘the Slab’ will be a terrible monument. It’s being called Gove Towers and he deserves it

The London megabuilding given the go-ahead this week is a giant symbol of profit over community, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Home Office drops plan to remove housing protections from asylum seekers

Draft policy to remove HMO regulations for landlords in England and Wales withdrawn hours before high court challenge

The Guardian - UK

Michael Gove approves £700m South Bank office development on former ITV site

Mitsubishi Estate London bought the site from ITV in 2019 for £145.6 million

Evening Standard

Michael Gove approves ‘derided’ £400m development on London’s South Bank

Office complex nicknamed the Slab given go-ahead despite fierce opposition from green and modernist architecture campaigners

The Guardian - UK

Birmingham given go-ahead to raise council tax by up to 10%

Michael Gove approves exceptional rise for UK’s biggest local authority after it declared itself effectively bankrupt last year

The Guardian - UK

Local councils must unite and fight for civic pride

Letter: Michael Gove encouraging councils to sell off assets is a low point in this government’s history of disregard for local authorities, writes Michael Meadowcroft

The Guardian - UK

Michael Gove lobbied by Covid VIP lane’s biggest winner of PPE contracts

Exclusive: then Cabinet Office minister had phone call with Unispace, which weeks later got the first of £680m worth of deals

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: England’s councils are going bust – why, and who is to blame?

In today’s newsletter: A Guardian series examines the causes and effects of councils going broke

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Teesworks review criticises freeport project’s secrecy and value for money

Government-backed scheme overseen by Tory mayor cleared of cronyism and corruption, but transparency found wanting

The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch is member of ‘Evil Plotters’ Tory WhatsApp group

Exclusive: Business secretary who has told party rebels to stop ‘stirring’ and back PM is in group along with Michael Gove

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on councils in crisis: local democracy is being betrayed

Editorial: Empty promises to empower local communities are belied by cuts on the ground, at a time of spiralling costs and growing challenges

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Households in England face above-inflation £2bn council tax raid

Exclusive: Maximum possible 4.99% rises expected in April while PM plans pre-election cuts to income tax

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Sturgeon ‘jumped the gun’ in banning mass gatherings early, Gove tells Covid inquiry

UK cabinet minister during pandemic adds that he was not inclined to believe Scottish first minister was acting maliciously

The Guardian - UK

Ministers urged not to play culture wars over species reintroductions in England

Exclusive: Head of government taskforce calls for evidence not anecdote in debate over the beaver, white-tailed eagle and others

The Guardian - UK

Michelle Mone: leading entrepreneur or lucky baroness?

The woman at the heart of the PPE scandal is widely hailed as a successful businessperson. But the fate of her high-profile lingerie company raises questions

The Guardian - UK

Faithless Tories feign loyalty to Rish! with all the plausibility of a Nadine Dorries story

After Simon Clarke proposed yet another leadership switch, most Tory MPs looked the other way – but Nadine sees deeper intrigue

Evening Standard

London council 'bankrupt in six weeks' without Government bailout

Havering council has applied for a £54 million loan from the Government so it can balance its budget

Evening Standard

Is Rishi Sunak facing a potential leadership contest and who could replace him? Tory MPs call for PM to quit

A former Tory minister reportedly reveals more discontent about the embattled PM’s leadership, raising the spectre of a future no-confidence vote

The Guardian - UK

English councils to get extra £600m funding to ease soaring costs

The additional £500m for social care and £100m in grants follows Tory MPs’ demands for more funds to prevent cuts to services

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