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Taxpayers should not fund the replacement of Grenfell-style cladding from private tower blocks, a Conservative peer said as the government announced it would pay an estimated £200m to ensure tenants' safety.
The money will be made available to remove aluminium composite material cladding from around 170 privately-owned high-rise buildings across England, the Ministry of Housing said.
It comes after almost two years of inaction from some building owners branded "reckless" by communities secretary James Brokenshire for trying to make leaseholders foot the bill.
The announcement is a row-back on plans previously announced by the government to compel building owners to foot the bill through financial penalties and exclusion from government house-building schemes.
Nigel Farage has said he believes the Tories and Labour will be "very worried" by the presence of a Brexit Party candidate in the upcoming Peterborough by-election.
Businessman Mike Greene, 54, who has appeared on Channel 4's The Secret Millionaire, will stand for Farage's new party in its first shot at a seat in Westminster.
The city's by-election will be held on 6 June to replace MP Fiona Onasanya, who lost her seat through a recall petition after serving time in prison for lying about a speeding offence.
Farage said he would not make any "silly predictions" about how his party would fare in the by-election, but added: "I think we're going to do very well.
"We're going to give it our best shot but that's the best I can say at this stage.
"We'll give it our best shot and I think the Conservative and Labour parties will be very worried by the presence of Mike Greene as we've got a candidate who's extremely well-known and respected in this constituency."
Onasanya, who was elected as a Labour MP in 2017, is not standing for re-election.
A second referendum could be a "healing process" bringing the Brexit process to a conclusion, Jeremy Corbyn has claimed.
My colleague Ashley Cowburn has the full story following the launch of Labour's European election manifesto:
Brexit "chaos" is leading to "creeping centralisation" of powers to Westminster, Scotland's first minister has warned.
Nicola Sturgeon has hit back at claims her SNP government was handing powers back to London after it delayed a move to allocate part of the cash raised by VAT direct to Edinburgh.
Sturgeon insisted Westminster was sending Scottish ministers "faulty goods", arguing the assignation of VAT would not see any control over the charge transferred north.
The first minister said: "This parliament is better placed than a Tory government or any UK government to decide what is right for the people of Scotland and the sooner we see more powers in this parliament, in fact the sooner we see this parliament as an independent parliament, the better for everyone."
But she also argued that when powers are devolved to Scotland, UK ministers "shouldn't send us faulty goods as they have tried to do on VAT".
Dame Pauline Green, who was Labour's leader in European parliament, has announced she is quitting the party over its failure to unequivocally back a second referendum.
She said she would support Change UK instead in the upcoming European elections.
Theresa May had lunch at her country retreat Chequers with DUP leader Arlene Foster and the party's Westminster chief Nigel Dodds today, her spokeswoman said.
Downing Street described the event as a "private political meeting" which had been scheduled for some time.
No 10 declined to reveal the subjects discussed.
A leading Labour peer has rounded on his party over the "stench of antisemitism" linked to some senior party figures.
Lord Harris of Haringey said it was also "shameful" that Labour was likely to be the subject of a formal investigation over "institutional racism".
He told the Lords: "It's long overdue that as a party we end denial and prevarication to eliminate the stench of antisemitism emanating from some in senior positions within our ranks."
Opening a debate on the need to tackle the "toxic" nature of public debate, Lord Harris said it was time for the political parties to put their own houses in order.
"For the Labour party, it is shameful that it is likely to be the subject of a formal investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission into its institutional racism."
The Conservatives must take effective action against those in their ranks "bigoted against Muslims", he said. "Only then can either party claim to have the moral authority to address the wider problems in society."
No.10 has commented on the week-long Easter recess for MPs announced earlier today by Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom, and plans to hold another vote on the deal before the end of May 23.
Asked whether it was right for MPs to take a break when Brexit legislation still needs to be pushed through Parliament, a Downing Street spokeswoman told reporters: “Recesses are obviously agreed by the House. This particular recess occurs every year.
“We have discussions with the opposition which are continuing and, subject to progress, we hope we are able to bring forward the Withdrawal Agreement Bill before recess.”
Leadsom said earlier that Britain’s failure to leave the EU almost three years after the referendum was “utterly unacceptable”.
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