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David Lammy under growing pressure as new manhunt launched for foreign offender who strolled out of prison

Ola Abimbola, who is 21-year sentence for offences including kidnap, grievous bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon in public, is being hunted by Sussex Police

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London families wait 18 years for council home as Government tells Sadiq Khan: 'Build, baby, build!'

Labour MPs spell out full extent of London housing crisis as 330,000 families seek permanent home

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Manhunt continues for wrongly released prisoner as pressure mounts on Lammy

Police are still looking for Brahim Kaddour-Cherif who was mistakenly set free from HMP Wandsworth.

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'Go to America,' Andrew told by Government he should face US grilling on links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

‘Any individual who can help with an investigation of that gravity should go and help if they can,’ says Communities Secretary Steve Reed

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Lammy promises ‘tough new release checks’ as missing prisoner arrested – as it happened

Accidental release of Brahim Kaddour-Cherif had added to pressure on justice secretary after similar incident involving Epping sex offender

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Social housing to see £7 billion boost as mayors urged to ‘go bold’ with plans

Local leaders in England will be able to specify the types of homes needed in their areas and which sites to prioritise for construction.

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MPs urge minister to adopt definition of Islamophobia amid rise in hate crime

Forty Labour and independent MPs call on Steve Reed to take ‘important step’ of defining anti-Muslim hatred

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‘Out of reach’: stalled newbuilds leave Labour’s social housing targets in tatters

As some families face a 200-year wait for an affordable home, what exactly has gone wrong?

The Guardian - UK

Business and charity leaders urge ministers to lead England’s transition to four-day week

Open letter signed by more than 100 leaders comes after local government secretary criticised a council for switching to shorter week

The Guardian - UK

Benefits of a four-day week are ever clearer, despite Steve Reed’s stance

Housing secretary’s criticism of trial in South Cambridgeshire council ignores its many positives

The Guardian - UK

Reed’s claims about Scottish water pollution could have misled public – watchdog

The SNP has now urged the former UK environment secretary to apologise.

Evening Standard

Council defends four-day working week after minister raises concerns

The leader of South Cambridgeshire District Council said her local authority remained ‘exceptionally high performing’ after instituting the change.

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Councils in England face clampdown on four-day working weeks

Steve Reed writes to South Cambridgeshire council raising concerns over performance and value for money

The Guardian - UK

Chinese embassy decision will consider ‘all relevant issues’, says minister

The Joint Committee on National Security Strategy had urged Steve Reed to reject Beijing’s plans to build a new embassy near the Tower of London.

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Bankrupt Woking to get £500m bailout in Surrey council shake-up

‘Unprecedented’ move helps to smooth over creation of two new ‘mega council’ unitary authorities

The Independent UK

Government approves two new Surrey councils as reorganisation milestone reached

A local government minister said the approved proposal is more likely to be financially sustainable.

The Independent UK

Mansion wealth tax wouldn’t fill Budget black hole, economists warn Reeves

Former IFS director Paul Johnson says a mansion tax ‘wouldn’t raise anywhere near enough to fill a significant hole’ in the public finances

The Independent UK

Prison custody manager ‘scapegoated’ over bungled release of Hadush Kebatu, union claims

Mistakes happen all the time amid jails chaos, warns chief inspector of prisons

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Starmer ‘angry’ over asylum accommodation ‘mess left from last government’

It comes as a report published on Monday said that billions of pounds had been ‘squandered’ on asylum accommodation by Home Office mismanagement.

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London 'will avoid worst of Angela Rayner's council funding raid' after fears of huge tax rises and service cuts

Former deputy prime minister had proposed to channel funding away from the capital into more deprived areas of the country

The Independent UK

Home Office could move asylum seekers into pop-up buildings as it scrambles over migrant hotel crisis

Minister says plans to move away from using migrant hotels will be announced ‘within weeks’

The Independent UK

Accidental release of migrant sex offender is sign of a ‘broken’ justice system, minister says

Steve Reed called for criminal justice system to be ‘rebuilt from bottom up’ after mistaken release of Hadush Kebatu, who was imprisoned for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl

The Independent UK

Progress on ending asylum hotels to be announced ‘within weeks’ – minister

Steve Reed said the Government was looking at ‘modular’ forms of building to ensure sites could go up quickly.

The Guardian - UK

England and Wales prison checks to be enhanced after inmate released in error

Justice secretary David Lammy to announce series of measures after Hadush Kebatu was wrongly freed

Evening Standard

Prisons to start ‘strengthened’ checks after migrant released in error

David Lammy will set out a series of measures aimed at strengthening the system as he faces questions about the blunder from MPs.

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