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Potential Labour leadership contender points to ‘big case’ for reforming property levies

Influential IPPR proposes capping rents at whichever is lower of consumer price inflation or wage growth * UK politics live – latest updates One of the thinktanks closest to the Labour government is urging ministers to introduce private sector rent controls in England, as the chancellor weighs up how to ease a surge in living costs caused by the Iran war. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published a paper calling for a rent “double lock”, which would link rent increases to either wages or inflation, depending on which was lower. Continue reading...

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The appointment of a new cabinet secretary is the right time to split the role from head of the civil service.

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