Harrowing report in The Guardian on schools on the frontline of the housing crisis. One boy did not come to school for two weeks after being woken up to rats on his chest. By Sammy Gecsoyler
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'People just find it a desperate trap.' Important read on shared ownership by Sky's fantastic data team Daniel Dunford Joely Santa Cruz
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'It is absurd that the government has taken 5 years to deliver these basic reforms - that's longer than Brexit took.' Tom Darling

Campaigners criticise delay to ban on no-fault evictions - as one renter tells Sky News about his 'revenge eviction'. 👇

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How Sue Gray bonded with Angela Rayner

A key dynamic at the top of Labour

Great kremlinoligy by Sky News’ Alexandra Rogers

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I'm running the London marathon to raise cash for Sands - baby loss charity 💙🧡 - a brilliant charity supporting families after miscarriages and stillbirths.

Explaining why has been almost as daunting as the run.

If you can spare a few quid, it's a GREAT cause: justgiving.com/page/tom-larki…

🚨Civil servants threaten to stop work over arms sales to Israel. John McDonnell MP says govt should 'come clean' on its legal advice. Says under Rome Statute 'following a superior's instructions is not a defence when it comes to charges of war crimes'.
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The killing of seven aid workers last night is getting a lot of international attention because at least 5 of them were foreigners.

But since October 2023 at least 196 humanitarian workers have been killed, most of them Palestinian.

Last night’s incident was not the first.

Great piece by my colleague Jennifer-Anne Scott on what can be done to help people facing huge rent rises. Generation Rent warn of increasing phenomena of 'economic evictions', where landlords raise rents so astronomically, people are forced to move home.

Looking for private renters who have been hit by large increases in their rents in the past year - both in and outside London. Get in touch, DMs are open #journorequests

NEW: Calls for inquiry into Loan Charge scandal after treasury cttee wrote to HMRC requesting more info on tax crackdown. Campaigners say letter was a 'tick box exercise' & 'failure of parliamentary scrutiny'. HMRC accused of 'airbrushing the whole mess'👇news.sky.com/story/hmrc-acc…

Ed Conway cutting through the spin

👀 More pressure on Gove over #rentersreformbill as over 100 council leaders ask for extension of eviction notice period. Scoop by Alexandra Rogers news.sky.com/story/michael-…

Starmer to Sunak at #PMQs : 'At what point did his party give up on governing and become the political wing of the flat earth society?'

Confused about today's Westminster row over amendments? Read Faye Brown for the best explanation of it all... news.sky.com/story/speaker-…

NEW: HMRC accused of ‘sinister’ new tactics in tax crackdown linked to 10 suicides. People facing unaffordable bills despite falling out of scope of Loan Charge after Morse Review.

‘In the worse case scenario I will lose my home.’ news.sky.com/story/hmrc-acc…

1/7An excellent piece by Faye Brown that lays bare the sinister behaviour of HM Revenue & Customs in circumventing the sham Morse review to pursue innocent taxpayers ensnared in #LoanCharge schemes. The underhandedness of the HMRC approach cannot be overstated.

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