Here's the thing. If you're buying a house and everything is simple, you can ask your conveyancer how much stamp duty to pay. If things are complex - e.g. there's a trust - this is a very bad idea. If Ms Rayner just asked her conveyancer then that was a mistake.

EXCLUSIVE: Angela Rayner has admitted that she underpaid stamp duty on her £800,000 seaside flat and has referred herself to the PM's ethics adviser after coming under intense pressure to be more transparent about her property arrangements.

Brilliant response to usual scaremongering about rich leaving! In any case, why should the rich be rewarded for bad behaviour? If the rest of us didn’t pay our taxes properly we’d rightfully get in trouble

Exclusive: We haven't been asked about return hubs, leaders of two other Balkan countries tell me. As Keir Starmer says he's in talks with various countries, but Albania says no; the leaders of Kosovo and North Macedonia say they haven't as yet been approached. The western

My piece for @UnHerd on Andrew Tate's warm welcome in the 'manosphere' that surrounds Donald Trump, and the divisions it exposes in the Republican party @UnHerd

https://t.co/bkkteyAp3N

#Azerbaijan: Women Press Freedom strongly condemns the detention of journalist #ShahnazBaylargizi. The latest in the alarming state crackdown on independent media in the country. Baylargizi, an editor at Toplum TV, was detained, and her home in Baku was raided by authorities.

I & ⁦@MaggieOliverUK⁩ agree - what’s the point of a costly & lengthy national inquiry when previous inquiries haven’t been implemented, even in part? Local independent inquiries with survivor voices are the best way of proceeding with urgency

From one British Nigerian MP to another British Nigerian MP, congratulations @KemiBadenoch on your election as Leader of the Conservative Party. Eku ori ire. Your dad would be proud.

Gangs recruit skilled drone pilots to fly drugs and even ketchup into UK prisons

Here's the message from Simon Case to civil servants. "It is a shame that I feel I have to spell this out, but my decision is solely to do with my health and nothing to do with anything else."

Simon Case has announced his resignation as cabinet secretary in a note to civil servants, I’m told.

This is cobblers. The Khan Review, commissioned by a @Conservative government, made these recommendations. Could someone have a quiet word with the interns running this account.

UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns about Euston station overcrowding https://t.co/9FhPQs7AsM Peter Hendy threatened to withhold public contracts from the man’s employer while urging disciplinary action — and asked officials to “deal with him”

Ofsted has published new data showing how children's homes have become a huge, money-spinning business. If you are squeamish about these things, look away now. 🧵

Just two billionaires laughing about sacking workers for striking for better pay and conditions x

I was at this woman's sentencing on Friday - she was jailed for 20 months The court heard that she was vulnerable and homeless, having recently fled domestic violence. She tagged along with friends to the protest after bumping into them outside a shop https://t.co/gkP044GvWi

Why, if Matt Goodwin agrees that a descendent of migrants like me is English, does he keep on emphasising that the Southport suspect is the 'child of Rwandan immigrants' if he was born in Wales? I put the question to him on Moral Maze. Listen here:

Ministers prepare extra 500 prison places to remand suspected rioters Cookham Wood repurposed and abandoned cells made safe, while early release scheme continues https://t.co/lTtzNPvcNb @syalrajeev on @guardian

My statement on the appalling footage from Manchester Airport: “The video footage of a Greater Manchester police officer kicking and stamping on a man in Manchester Airport is truly shocking and disturbing. Like many who have seen this clip, I am extremely concerned. I have had