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A view of the Westferry Printworks site on the Isle of Dogs, east London
HOUSING Secretary Robert Jenrick bowed to pressure from Labour yesterday with a promise to release documents related to the Westferry planning scandal.
During an Opposition Day debate, he told MPs he would provide a timeline and explain his decision-making on the Westferry Printworks Development — which he approved 12 days before its developer gave £12,000 to the Conservative Party.
Labour brought the debate over the suspected “cash-for-favours” incident involving former press baron Richard “Dirty Des” 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
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
Campaign group’s legal challenge against decision to approve proposals dismissed
BEN CHACKO reports on the struggles against sexism, racism and the brutish British state that featured at Matchwomen’s Festival this year