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Did Michael Gove go 'rogue' with social housing spending promise during Manchester speech?

“I understand the Secretary of State is in Rochdale today. How can he possibly tell housing associations to sort themselves out if he can’t sort out his own department?" shadow communities secretary Lisa Nandy asked.

Manchester Evening News

Treasury reins in levelling up spending amid Gove’s plan for more grants

Michael Gove’s department banned from spending money on new capital projects without Treasury approval

The Guardian - UK

Harry and Meghan make their stage debuts as gruesome puppets for Spitting Image

A new show has opened at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre featuring the Duke and Duchess and a host of other famous faces pictured below

Wales Online

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The Guardian view on the cladding scandal: tough talk must be matched with substance

Editorial: Michael Gove’s admission of failures is welcome, but leaseholders need certainty they won’t be on the hook for any fire defects

The Guardian - UK

Call to sanction cladding suppliers that made £7.5bn profit since Grenfell disaster

Manufacturers of insulation installed on the tower have yet to agree a voluntary funding scheme to fix dangerous buildings

The Guardian - UK

Number of problems in social housing ‘only seem to be getting bigger’, campaigner warns

Activist Kwajo Tweneboa said more tenants were reaching out to him for help with their social housing situations

Evening Standard

1,000 University jobs at risk in Wales as more strikes planned

Universities Wales said 1,000 jobs could be cut as a result of lost EU funding

Wales Online

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Awaab's Law: Damp and mould complaints surge as action promised following toddler's death

Landlords are under scrutiny

Manchester Evening News

Nottingham City Council avoids government intervention but warned not to 'loosen its grip'

The Government has confirmed that it will not be sending commissioners in to run Nottingham City Council at this stage, but that there is "much to do" for it to improve.

Nottingham Post

Firefighter took selfie in front of smouldering Grenfell Tower and used it for Tinder

The London Fire Brigade worker is said to have taken the picture "in the immediate aftermath" of the tragedy which killed 72 people, including 18 children, in 2017

Daily Mirror

Michael Gove thinks Levelling Up cash is 'transformational'... but for this town it's simply not enough

Oldham was awarded £20m in the second round of what was once Whitehall’s flagship investment programme

Manchester Evening News

Mould complaints in England’s social housing double over two years

Ombudsman criticises ‘disappointing’ response by landlords in wake of Awaab Ishak’s death from respiratory illness in 2020

The Guardian - UK

North East devolution deal slammed as 'undemocratic' by Berwick councillor

The £4.2 billion deal was signed by council leaders last week

Chronicle Live

Yvette Cooper tells Suella Braverman 'I don't know what you do' in blistering swipe

The shadow Home Secretary urged her Tory counterpart to 'get out of the way and let somebody else do the job' as she lashed out over the government's crime failings

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Evening Standard

What are leaseholds? Labour plans to ban property managers who exploit tenants

Shadow housing secretary Lisa Nandy ponders tighter regulation on the sector after complaints from leaseholders

Evening Standard

Developers must commit to fixing unsafe tower blocks or face ban, says Gove

The plan is the Government’s response to the Grenfell Tower fire, which brought to light safety issues in apartment buildings

Wales Online

Michael Gove pledges to let millions in leasehold homes buy their properties outright

It could mean millions of families will get greater powers to buy

The Independent UK

Putin threatened to kill me with missile attack, says Boris Johnson

‘It would only take a minute’, Russian president told British PM ahead of Ukraine invasion

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ABC News

The Loop: Zelenskyy says Russia at 2024 Olympic Games shows war is 'acceptable', and Flume 'didn't see' Hottest 100 win coming — as it happened

The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happen.

Daily Mirror

Michael Gove admits 'faulty' Government guidance partly to blame for Grenfell tragedy

The Housing Secretary's comments come over five years after the fire at the residential tower block in North Kensington, west London, in June 2017 killed 72 people and triggered a public inquiry

The Independent UK

Sunak fires Zahawi for ‘serious breach’ after tax affairs row

The Prime Minister told the Conservative Party chairman that he believed he had committed a ‘serious breach of the Ministerial Code’.

The Independent UK

Wait for facts in BBC chairman row, says Gove amid Johnson finance claims

Boris Johnson was reportedly warned to stop discussing his financial arrangements with Richard Sharp days before the latter was named BBC chairman.

Bristol Post

Government's 'hospital at home' scheme launches in Bristol with hundreds of patients sent home

The 'NHS@Home' scheme is a deal with medi-tech firm Doccla

Reuters

Government bears some blame for Grenfell fire, UK housing minister says

The British government is partly to blame for the Grenfell fire which killed 72 people in 2017 as building regulations were deficient and could be exploited by developers in a way that was unsafe, housing minister Michael Gove said on Sunday.

The Guardian - UK

‘Mental torture’: six years after Grenfell, UK residents still live in fear as cladding deal falters

A government agreement with developers was meant to solve the fire safety crisis in affected buildings – but the wrangling goes on

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