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Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick in Downing Street, London.
LABOUR has demanded that Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick “explain major discrepancies” between his account of his role in a cash-for-favours scandal and the documents he was forced to publish this week.
in a letter to the beleaguered minister today, Shadow communities secretary Steve Reed also called on him to publish all remaining documents not subject to Freedom of Information laws.
Mr Jenrick is facing mounting calls to resign after documents made public on Wednesday revealed the extent of his contact with billionaire former press baron Richard Desmond.
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
Following comments made by Robert Jenrick about the people of Handsworth, the TUC, together with 12 trade unions representing members who live and work in the area, have issued a joint letter calling for the Conservative Party to take immediate action
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON