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Thursday briefing: Councils are going broke – but is it really because they went woke?

In today’s newsletter: Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was expected to target ‘unnecessary’ council spending on consultants and diversity projects in his Budget – but here’s the truth

The Guardian - UK

The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson review – can we even be sure he’ll stay fallen?

This horrifying series makes it way through years of splutter-bumbles and shouting at yucca plants and wrecking everything, until even his champions declare him friendless. Still, it’s way too soon for this – isn’t it?

The Guardian - UK

Historian Julian Jackson wins the Duff Cooper prize for non-fiction

His editor got a laugh at the ceremony for a jibe at Michael Gove

Evening Standard

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Warning unscrupulous landlords could use a loophole to avoid Airbnb-style short term lets crackdown

The Chancellor has announced tax perks for second home owners who rent out properties as holiday lets will be abolished

Evening Standard

Never judge a farmer by her husband

Brief letters: Meeting farmers | Gove’s legacy | Rishi Sunak and democracy | Enemies of the state | Funeral forewarning

The Guardian - UK

Less than 20% of town regeneration projects completed in England, figures show

Exclusive: Plans either shelved or stalled despite forming part of flagship policy promise at last election

The Guardian - UK

Scotland is in decline because of SNP’s independence obsession, says Gove

Devastating focus on separatism means public services have been run down, minister tells Tory activists in Aberdeen

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Anderson and Braverman shout loudest, but one man has led the toxification of the Tories: Michael Gove

As an influential constant in government, Gove has been key to the process of rightwing radicalisation, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Government documents ‘blow gaping hole’ in its case for Cumbrian coalmine

Michael Gove said UK needed coal to make steel, but business department papers drafted around same time say it will not

The Guardian - UK

M&S wins court challenge to Gove’s block on razing of Oxford Street store

Judge rules levelling up secretary’s attempt to prevent the rebuilding of the Marble Arch shop is unlawful

The Guardian - UK

Marks & Spencer wins High Court battle to demolish Oxford Street store

Michael Gove made a series of blunders in blocking the demolition of M&S’s flagship store, High Court judge rules

Evening Standard

Michael Gove under investigation by standards watchdog

Inquiry into housing secretary’s register of financial interests comes week after Guardian report over football hospitality

The Guardian - UK

Michael Gove under investigation by Parliament watchdog over financial interests

Michael Gove is under investigation by Parliament’s standards watchdog, it was revealed on Thursday.

Evening Standard

Anti-leasehold bill contains loopholes for developers, say campaigners

Clauses in Michael Gove’s bill include exemptions for properties in a retirement village or on land where a lease has already been granted

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New Planning Rules Aim to Safeguard UK Residents from Displacement Due to Short-Term Lets

Secretary of State for Levelling Up Housing and Communities, Michael Gove, emphasised the crucial role short-term lets play in the flourishing tourism sector.

The Guardian - UK

School summer holidays in England should be cut to four weeks, report says

Experts to also recommend longer half-term breaks in proposed overhaul of school calendar ‘in place since Victorian times’

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan urges Government to do more to combat London property owners with links to the Kremlin

Sadiq Khan has urged the Government to go further in clamping down on property owned by Russians with links to the Kremlin or accused of corruption.

The Guardian - UK

Criticising Israel doesn’t mean we are antisemitic

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Jonathan Freedland about antisemitism in Britain in relation to Israel’s war on Hamas

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The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: Everyone claims to back a ceasefire in Gaza. But what are they really saying?

In today’s newsletter: As Israel’s position weakens on the international stage, differences in language between different ceasefire calls tell a complicated story

The Guardian - UK

Almost a third of Tory MPs trying to weaken tenant protection bill are landlords

Analysis shows 14 landlord MPs are among the 47 backbenchers who have signed amendments to bill

The Guardian - UK

Michael Gove failed to register hospitality with donor whose firm he referred for PPE contracts

Exclusive: Gove enjoyed VIP hospitality at football match with owner of company awarded £164m of contracts after Gove’s referral

Evening Standard

Are the new government rules on short-term lets just "more hot air" for London's renters?

Homeowners who rent out their homes for more than 90 days a year will need to seek planning permission, but London already caps short term lets at that limit

The Guardian - UK

The right to roam … but you have to trespass to get there. England’s countryside rules are truly absurd

It is a scandal that 2,500 beauty spots are designated as places to walk and enjoy, but no one can legally reach them except the landowners, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Evening Standard

AirBnB-style short-term lets to require planning permission under new plan to ease housing crisis

The rules would not to apply to people renting out their main home for 90 days or less in a year

Evening Standard

OPINION - Britain has stopped building beautiful and the carbuncle known as the South Bank Slab is a new London low

The curious thing about the development known as The Slab, which is to replace the unprepossessing ITV block on the South Bank, is that no one other than the developers has a good word to say for it. Yet Michael Gove approved it last week. The Mayor supported Lambeth council’s…

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