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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

The Guardian - UK

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.

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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’

The Guardian - UK

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.

Evening Standard

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

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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

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…

Evening Standard

Inter Faith Network headed for closure as Gove ‘minded to withdraw’ funding

Row over religious cohesion charity’s appointment of trustee with links to Muslim Council of Britain

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Evening Standard

We must unlock a build-to-rent revolution in London to help house our young people

Planning reform is urgently needed before Michael Gove’s stark warning about the threat to democracy comes true

Evening Standard

Comment: 'Building on the green belt is a political grenade. Gove should have pulled the pin'

Gove’s consultation for building on brownfield and more office-to-resi conversions will barely scratch the surface of the housing crisis

Evening Standard

'An insult': Sadiq Khan under fire over 2.8% progress on latest affordable housing programme

A spokeswoman for the mayor promised that the programme’s delivery would ‘ramp up’ over the coming months

Evening Standard

Oxford Street clash between M&S and Michael Gove reaches the High Court

Flagship store planning dispute could end in the departure of one of the famous shopping street’s biggest names

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The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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.

The Guardian - UK

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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