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Yesterday Keir Starmer<\/strong> told MPs that he favoured a parliamentary inquiry covering Prince Andrew\u2019s housing arrangements at Royal Lodge \u2013 the mansion in Windsor which he leases from the crown estate on a deal that involves him paying no rent.<\/p>\n Today the Commons public accounts committee<\/strong> (PAC) said it is going to be asking the crown estate for more details of Andrew\u2019s lease arrangements \u2013 in what would be the first step towards a full investigation.<\/p>\n Geoffrey Clifton-Brown<\/strong>, the Conservative MP who chairs the committee, said:<\/p>\n The public accounts committee will be writing in the coming days to the crown estate commissioners and HM Treasury, seeking further information on the lease arrangements for Royal Lodge.<\/p>\n In the correspondence, our cross-party committee will be raising a number of questions with the crown estate and HM Treasury. This forms part of our longstanding remit, on behalf of parliament and the British public, to examine the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of public spending, and ensure the taxpayer is receiving best value for money.<\/p>\n Our committee has a further opportunity in 2026 to consider the annual report and accounts for the crown estate, and will make a decision on whether to undertake any work on this in the normal way. We will review the response we receive to our forthcoming correspondence, and will consider at that time whether to seek further information.<\/p>\n In the past the PAC has published reports looking at royal finances. But it has not taken evidence from members of the royal family directly, and Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, who wants to see Andrew summoned to parliament to face questions from MPs, is unlikely to get his wish granted any time soon.<\/p>\n Clifton-Brown does not really need to write to the crown estate for details of the lease; they were published in the Times on Monday evening, after the crown estate responded to a Freedom of Information request. Official bodies normally take weeks or months to respond to FoI requests. But George Greenwood<\/strong>, the journalist who broke the story, said he got a reply on the day \u2013 suggesting somone at the crown estate was not unhappy about the idea of this information appearing in the public domain.<\/p>\n The paper said:<\/p>\n The Times obtained a copy of the leasehold agreement for Royal Lodge, revealing the terms under which the prince lives on the 30-room estate.<\/p>\n It states that, while the prince paid \u00a31m for the lease plus at least \u00a37.5 million for refurbishments completed in 2005, he has paid \u201cone peppercorn (if demanded)\u201d in rent per year, since 2003.<\/p>\n He and his family are entitled to live in the property until 2078.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a010.33 EDT<\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n 18m ago<\/p>\n Afternoon summary<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 42m ago<\/p>\n AI, used well, can ‘rebuild trust in state’ and in politics, David Lammy says<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 1h ago<\/p>\n Conservatives complain to whips about fellow MP\u2019s comments on legally settled people<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 1h ago<\/p>\n Labour and Tory thinktanks welcome affordable housing quotas being cut for London in bid to boost development<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 2h ago<\/p>\n Spending less than 8% of new fishing fund on Scotland ‘madness’, MPs told<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 2h ago<\/p>\n Commons inquiry into Prince Andrew’s rent-free housing gets closer as public accounts committee requests details of lease<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 3h ago<\/p>\n Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips remains in post<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 4h ago<\/p>\n Starmer announces \u00a310m in extra funding to protect mosques and Muslim faith centres during visit to Peacehaven<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 4h ago<\/p>\n DfE welcomes figures showing school attendance rates in England improving, though still below pre-Covid levels<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 4h ago<\/p>\n Starmer says ‘of course’ he has faith in safeguarding minister Jess Phillips<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 4h ago<\/p>\n Starmer rejects claim return of man deported to France under ‘one in, one out’ scheme has left plan ‘in tatters’<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 5h ago<\/p>\n Mahmood says violence against women and girls ‘national emergency’ as recorded sexual offences reach record high<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 5h ago<\/p>\n Homicide rate in England and Wales down to lowest rate for at least two decades, ONS says<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 5h ago<\/p>\n Reform\u2019s only Black branch chair quits over \u2018harmful\u2019 migration debate<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 5h ago<\/p>\n Cleverly wrongly claims Tory deportation policy would not retrospectively impact people with indefinite leave to remain<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 6h ago<\/p>\n Claire Coutinho claims Tony Blair’s thinktank ‘catching up’ with Tories after it says 2030 ‘clean power’ target should be dropped<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 6h ago<\/p>\n Renewable energy investment should come from defence budgets, say retired military leaders<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 7h ago<\/p>\n Solicitor general Ellie Reeves says disinformation’ from Tories on China spy case is distracting from anti-espionage work<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 8h ago<\/p>\n Lindsay Hoyle suggests government, not parliamentary rules, to blame for MPs not getting chance to debate Prince Andrew<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 8h ago<\/p>\n Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell make their final arguments ahead of ballot closing in Labour’s deputy leadership contest<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 9h ago<\/p>\n Badenoch criticised for using grooming gangs inquiry for ‘point scoring’<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 9h ago<\/p>\n Jess Phillips has full confidence of PM, says minister, after grooming gang survivors say inquiry will fail if she stays<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/span>Show key events only<\/p>\n Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Keir Starmer has said he can\u2019t express how much he disagrees with the Tory MP who wants mass deportations to make the UK more \u201cculturally coherent\u201d.<\/strong> In an interview at the weekend Katie Lam<\/strong> called for the deportation of large numbers of people who are settled in the UK lawfully. At first it was widely assumed that Lam was freelancing, but Lam was in fact describing the official party policy as set out in a bill tabled by Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, earlier this year. (See 3.09pm.) Lam said the deportations would leave \u201ca mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people\u201d. Asked what he thought of her comments, Starmer<\/strong> told ITV Meridian:<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n I can\u2019t tell you how much I disagree with her. I think that her approach, where people who are lawfully in this country, who have been working in our communities, perhaps in our schools, our hospitals, running businesses, our neighbours, people lawfully here, she wants to reach in and remove them from our country, for cultural reasons, she says. That is how far the Conservative party has sunk.<\/p>\n The Commons public accounts committee has asked the crown estate for details of Prince Andrew\u2019s lease, bringing the prospect of a parliamentary inquiry into his rent-free housing one step closer.<\/strong> (See 3.31pm.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n For a full list of all the stories covered on the blog today, do scroll through the list of key event headlines near the top of the blog.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/span>Keir Starmer at Peacehaven Mosque today.<\/span> Photograph: Peter Nicholls\/AFP\/Getty ImagesShare<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.50 EDT<\/p>\n The use of artificial intelligence can boost trust in the state and tackle problems with the \u201cbloated\u201d public sector, David Lammy<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n In a speech at OpenAI\u2019s Frontiers conference in London this morning, the deputy PM said that the public sector had become \u201ctoo expensive\u201d and that productivity was still lagging behind pre-pandemic levels, but that AI had the potential to change that.<\/p>\n He said:<\/p>\n Governments and corporations who seize AI faster and more robustly will surge ahead and those that hesitate will fall very quickly behind.<\/p>\n I\u2019m also convinced that if used well \u2013 emphasis on used well \u2013 AI can help to rebuild trust in the state, badly needed trust in our politics, delivering what people really want: shorter waits, fewer errors, lower costs and better outcomes.<\/p>\n He also said:<\/p>\n Parts of our bureaucracy have become bloated, they have become too expensive, they have become too unproductive, to the point that too often they fail to meet the needs of the people that they\u2019re meant to serve.<\/p>\n And, let\u2019s be frank, public sector productivity is still lagging, certainly behind pre-pandemic levels, and that\u2019s not good for anybody. It\u2019s certainly not good for the people of our country \u2026<\/p>\n If we get this right, if we embed AI across government, across every system, across every service, I believe that we can rejuvenate 150 years of British state enterprise in the next 15 years, possibly even sooner.<\/p>\n <\/span>David Lammy speaking at the OpenAI’s Frontiers Conference at St Pancras Hotel in central London this morning.<\/span> Photograph: Stefan Rousseau\/PAShare<\/p>\n Voting has closed in the Labour deputy leadership contest. The result will be announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n LabourList and Survation do regular polls of Labour members (they survey LabourList members who say they are party members, and weight the results according to what is known the composition of the Labour membership) and they have published their final deputy leadership one. It suggests Lucy Powell will beat Bridget Phillipson by 57% to 40%.<\/p>\n <\/span>Polling on deputy leadership<\/span> Photograph: LabourListShare<\/p>\n Conservative MPs have complained to party whips after Katie Lam said many legally settled people should be deported to make the UK \u201cculturally coherent\u201d, the Guardian has learned. Eleni Courea <\/strong>and Peter Walker<\/strong> have the story.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n As expected, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government<\/strong> has confirmed that it will allow builders to qualify for fast-track planning approval if their developments contain 20% affordable housing \u2013 rather than 35%, the current minimum.<\/p>\n MHCLG said this was housing building in Londo \u201chas faced significant challenges over recent years due to a combination of the legacy of the previous government, impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, high interest rates, spiralling construction costs, regulatory blockers and wider economic conditions\u201d.<\/p>\n In its news release, MHCLG said:<\/p>\n Time-limited, emergency measures, which are subject to consultation, will unlock development by making sites more viable and incentivise developers to get spades in the ground through a fast-tracked planning process for sites with at least 20 per cent affordable housing. Targeted measures will tackle squeezed viability, including the removal of design guidance that constrains density and temporary relief from development levies for schemes able to start promptly and guarantee affordable homes for Londoners.<\/p>\n Today\u2019s package will mean that more homes \u2013 including affordable homes and those for social rent \u2013 can be built and built faster. This \u2018use it or lose it\u2019 route will come with strict conditions to speed up the delivery of new homes, which if not met will require developers to share their profits with local boroughs to deliver more affordable homes.<\/p>\n Unusually, the announcement has been welcomed by thinktanks on the left and the right.<\/p>\n This is from Ben Cooper, head of the Fabian Housing Centre<\/strong>, the housing wing of the Labour thinktank, the Fabian Society.<\/p>\n The collapse of housebuilding in London is the legacy of the previous government, piling up costs on housebuilders and failing to ensure quick planning decisions. Unless this is tackled swiftly, London\u2019s housing crisis will continue to devastate families and communities \u2013 leaving thousands trapped in temporary accommodation and many more struggling with the cost of rent or unable to buy.<\/p>\n That is why this package is critical to kickstart building in London over the next two years. Additional powers for the mayor will ensure that every part of London is making its contribution to tackling the housing crisis and meeting the 1.5m new homes target. The temporary reduction in the affordable housing target is a regrettable necessity, to ensure that we don\u2019t see the delivery of affordable and social housing grind to a halt in London.<\/p>\n And this is from Ben Hopkinson, head of housing and infrastracture at the Centre for Policy Studies<\/strong>, a Conservative thinktank.<\/p>\n The government\u2019s support for housebuilding in London is welcome, and the new policy paper contains some encouraging elements.<\/p>\n The removal of costly regulations like those requiring dual aspect and the changes to high affordability requirements, as the CPS has repeatedly called for, are especially good news.<\/p>\n The Centre for London<\/strong> also welcomed the news. Its CEO, Antonia Jennings, said:<\/p>\n The 35% affordable homes target for new developments is admirable, and it\u2019s one London should strive for in the long-term.<\/p>\n The reality is, however, that 35% of nothing, is nothing. When no new developments are being built, there will be no new social homes.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.52 EDT<\/p>\n The Labour MP Lloyd Hatton<\/strong>, who has been among those pushing for a fuller inquiry into Prince Andrew, welcomeed the announcement from the public accounts committee. (See 3.31pm.)<\/p>\n He said:<\/p>\n It\u2019s good news the public accounts committee is beginning to take a much closer look at this pressing matter. We must scrutinise any taxpayers\u2019 money that may be linked to the Royal Lodge. The public rightly expect parliament to get to the bottom of this.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n The food minister has faced calls to explain the \u201cocean-going madness\u201d of spending less than 8% of a new fishing fund on Scotland, PA Media reports. PA says:<\/p>\n During a Commns urgent question this morning Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael<\/strong> pressed Angela Eagle<\/strong> to say when she planned to look again at Scotland\u2019s \u00a328m allocation from the \u00a3360m UK-wide package.<\/p>\n Scotland lands the most fish by quantity and value out of the four UK nations, according to the Government, and the Scottish fishing<\/em> fleet has landed more than three-quarters of UK quota species, such as cod, haddock and herring, over recent years.<\/p>\n The government earlier this year set out its intention to back coastal communities with funding when negotiators struck a 12-year agreement with the EU, granting British fishing<\/em> access and rights with no increase in the amount which EU vessels can catch in UK waters.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are working closely with our fishing<\/em> and seafood sectors to ensure that they\u2019re vibrant, profitable and sustainable alongside a healthy and productive marine environment,\u201d Eagle told the Commons.<\/p>\n She said the Fishing<\/em> and Coastal Growth Fund will \u201csupport the next generation of fishers and breathe new life into our coastal communities\u201d.<\/p>\n Eagle continued: \u201cThis fund recognises the vital contribution that fishing<\/em> and coastal communities make to our economy, local communities and national heritage. Designing this fund with stakeholders is paramount to its success, and we want to work with industry and communities to get their views on how to maximise value, and target investment for maximum local impact.\u201d<\/p>\n The minister added the fund \u201cwould be devolved, providing devolved governments with full discretion of how to allocate funding and reaffirming this Government\u2019s commitment to devolution\u201d, with the allocations for Holyrood, Cardiff Bay and Stormont based on the Barnett Formula.<\/p>\n Carmichael<\/strong>, who chairs the Commons\u2019 environment committee, told MPs: \u201cLet\u2019s not forget that this fund was created because the prime minister went and rolled over for 12 years the catastrophically bad deal that Boris Johnson gave us for five.<\/p>\n \u201cIf the minister is sincere when she says that the aim of the government is to maximise local investment, then to use the Barnett Formula to distribute this is ocean-going madness.\u201d<\/p>\n Brendan O\u2019Hara<\/strong> described the allocation as a \u201ckick in the teeth to those fishing<\/em> communities\u201d in his Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber constituency.<\/p>\n Mairi Gougeon<\/strong>, the Scottish government\u2019s rural affairs secretary, has previously written to Eagle, describing the allocation as \u201cwholly unacceptable\u201d.<\/p>\n Wales\u2019s Fishing<\/em> and Coastal Growth Fund allocation was \u00a318m, with Northern Ireland set to receive \u00a310m.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Yesterday Keir Starmer<\/strong> told MPs that he favoured a parliamentary inquiry covering Prince Andrew\u2019s housing arrangements at Royal Lodge \u2013 the mansion in Windsor which he leases from the crown estate on a deal that involves him paying no rent.<\/p>\n Today the Commons public accounts committee<\/strong> (PAC) said it is going to be asking the crown estate for more details of Andrew\u2019s lease arrangements \u2013 in what would be the first step towards a full investigation.<\/p>\n Geoffrey Clifton-Brown<\/strong>, the Conservative MP who chairs the committee, said:<\/p>\n The public accounts committee will be writing in the coming days to the crown estate commissioners and HM Treasury, seeking further information on the lease arrangements for Royal Lodge.<\/p>\n In the correspondence, our cross-party committee will be raising a number of questions with the crown estate and HM Treasury. This forms part of our longstanding remit, on behalf of parliament and the British public, to examine the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of public spending, and ensure the taxpayer is receiving best value for money.<\/p>\n Our committee has a further opportunity in 2026 to consider the annual report and accounts for the crown estate, and will make a decision on whether to undertake any work on this in the normal way. We will review the response we receive to our forthcoming correspondence, and will consider at that time whether to seek further information.<\/p>\n In the past the PAC has published reports looking at royal finances. But it has not taken evidence from members of the royal family directly, and Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, who wants to see Andrew summoned to parliament to face questions from MPs, is unlikely to get his wish granted any time soon.<\/p>\n Clifton-Brown does not really need to write to the crown estate for details of the lease; they were published in the Times on Monday evening, after the crown estate responded to a Freedom of Information request. Official bodies normally take weeks or months to respond to FoI requests. But George Greenwood<\/strong>, the journalist who broke the story, said he got a reply on the day \u2013 suggesting somone at the crown estate was not unhappy about the idea of this information appearing in the public domain.<\/p>\n The paper said:<\/p>\n The Times obtained a copy of the leasehold agreement for Royal Lodge, revealing the terms under which the prince lives on the 30-room estate.<\/p>\n It states that, while the prince paid \u00a31m for the lease plus at least \u00a37.5 million for refurbishments completed in 2005, he has paid \u201cone peppercorn (if demanded)\u201d in rent per year, since 2003.<\/p>\n He and his family are entitled to live in the property until 2078.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a010.33 EDT<\/p>\n Five survivors invited on to the child sexual exploitation inquiry panel have written to Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood to say they will continue working with the investigation only if the safeguarding minister Jess Phillips remains in post, Geraldine McKelvie<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n James Cleverly is probably not the only senior Tory who is not aware of the full details of the party\u2019s plan to revoke indefinite leave to remain from many people, including people who have been in receipt of benefits and people earning less than \u00a338,700 a year. (See 12.27pm.) The proposal is so extreme that it is safe to assume that it did not get proper scrutiny before Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, published it in a private member\u2019s bill. In a column for the Financial Times, Stephen Bush<\/strong> says this could lead to 5% of the UK\u2019s legal population being deported. He says;<\/p>\n [The proposal] essentially means that almost anyone who works in the UK for most of their working life is not going to be able to retire in the UK \u2014 which if you are in any way integrated to the country is going to be a huge wrench for you, your friends, neighbours and at least some of your family members.<\/p>\n In scale, these proposals would mean deporting greater numbers and a greater proportion of the population than former Ugandan President Idi Amin\u2019s deportation of Ugandan Asians. This scale of population movement is comparable to that which happened with the partition of India and Pakistan and the foundation of the state of Israel \u2026<\/p>\n Politically, the big winner here is Nigel Farage. That the Conservative party increasingly holds positions that are further from mainstream British public opinion than Reform, and does so while being blamed by the public for many of the UK\u2019s problems today, is a gift to him in his quest to first become the dominant force on the British right and then to win an election.<\/p>\n My colleague Rafael Behr<\/strong> says he has heard suggestions that the Tories published their bill before Kemi Badenoch had even read it.<\/p>\n I have heard it plausibly suggested that Badenoch herself may well not have bothered reading the draft bill, or not closely enough to grasp what was actually being proposed. And \u2026<\/p>\n \u2026 far from Lam \u201cfreelancing\u201d in ST as some Tories have tried to hint since Sunday, she may, as eager newbie, have mistakenly assumed the boss knew what official party policy was. Rookie error.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Keir Starmer<\/strong> was visiting the Peacehaven mosque in East Sussex today, which was subject to an arson attack earlier this month, to announce an extra \u00a310m in funding for mosques and Muslim faith centres.<\/p>\n No 10 said the invement would provide \u201cvital security measures including CCTV, alarm systems, secure fencing and security personnel services\u201d, and that it would be in addition to the \u00a329.4m already allocated this year for mosques and Muslim faith schools.<\/p>\n Anti-Muslim hate crime rose by 19% in the year ending March 2025, and it accounts for 44% of all religious hate crime, No 10 said.<\/p>\n Starmer said:<\/p>\n Britain is a proud and tolerant country. Attacks on any community are attacks on our entire nation and our values. This funding will provide Muslim communities with the protection they need and deserve, allowing them to live in peace and safety.<\/p>\n <\/span>Keir Starmer greeting a boy at Peacehaven Mosque today.<\/span> Photograph: Peter Nicholls\/Getty Images<\/span>Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood in conversation with worshippers at Peacehaven Mosque near Brighton<\/span> Photograph: Peter Nicholls\/AFP\/Getty ImagesShare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Commons inquiry into Prince Andrew’s rent-free housing gets closer as public accounts committee requests details of lease Yesterday Keir Starmer told MPs that he favoured a parliamentary inquiry covering Prince Andrew\u2019s housing arrangements at Royal Lodge \u2013 the mansion in Windsor which he leases from the crown estate on a deal that involves him paying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[11595,1208,785,4776,1729,709,419,1264,357,2147,124,12312,17711],"class_list":{"0":"post-30090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-andrews","9":"tag-closer","10":"tag-commons","11":"tag-crown","12":"tag-details","13":"tag-estate","14":"tag-happened","15":"tag-housing","16":"tag-inquiry","17":"tag-moves","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-prince","20":"tag-rentfree"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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AI, used well, can ‘rebuild trust in state’ and in politics, David Lammy says<\/h2>\n
Conservatives complain to whips about fellow MP\u2019s comments on legally settled people<\/h2>\n
Labour and Tory thinktanks welcome affordable housing quotas being cut for London in bid to boost development<\/h2>\n
Spending less than 8% of new fishing fund on Scotland ‘madness’, MPs told<\/h2>\n
Commons inquiry into Prince Andrew’s rent-free housing gets closer as public accounts committee requests details of lease<\/h2>\n
Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips remains in post<\/h2>\n
Starmer announces \u00a310m in extra funding to protect mosques and Muslim faith centres during visit to Peacehaven<\/h2>\n