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• Greens say Labour should focus more on building council homes and that new housing plan is flawed – as it happened

  30-07-2024 18:30
  Rayner says housing target system will raise number of homes planned to 370,000 and confirmed targets will be mandatoryBalls, who, of course, is a former Labour cabinet minister, and a former shadow chancellor, questions whether Reeves is right to suggest that Jeremy Hunt is wholly to blame for the black hole. He says that other cabinet ministers and departments drew up the spending plans that she says were unfunded.Reeves repeats the point she has been making all morning about how the public we
  
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• Angela Rayner announces increase in new homes target to 370,000 a year – UK politics live

  30-07-2024 15:22
  Deputy PM accuses Kemi Badenoch of not understanding that housing was part of the reason the Tories lost the electionBalls, who, of course, is a former Labour cabinet minister, and a former shadow chancellor, questions whether Reeves is right to suggest that Jeremy Hunt is wholly to blame for the black hole. He says that other cabinet ministers and departments drew up the spending plans that she says were unfunded.Reeves repeats the point she has been making all morning about how the public were
  
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• I'm under attack and fighting back: the scandal trapping carers - video

  30-07-2024 14:50
  
  Debbie cares full-time for her elderly mother, works part-time as a cleaner, and claims carer's allowance of £81.90 a week. But she was one of hundreds of thousands of carers to receive a demand from the Department for Work and Pensions to pay back large sums of money for inadvertently going slightly over the earnings limit. Now Debbie and carers like her are starting to fight back and demand change to the systemKey workers quit jobs to avoid cash penalties for breaching carer’s allo
  
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