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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth The Conservatives will announce a bonfire of regulations including abolishing affordable homes and community funding rules as well as scrapping Natural England and the Environment Agency. The shadow chancellor, Andrew Griffith, will say the party intends to “streamline regulations” that protect nature and oblige developers to include affordable homes and community services such as GP surgeries, to speed up infrastructure and housebuilding. Continue reading...

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Good palliative care and assisted dying can go hand in hand | Letters

Readers respond to an article on the urgent need for palliative care reform Jane Turner is right that end-of‑life care needs fixing ( MPs, you told us clearly that end-of-life care in the UK is broken. So now we need you to fix it, 28 September ), and I argue that it needs fixing on two fronts at once. My husband, John, died in March aged 43 after nearly six years of bowel cancer treatment. He endured more than 70 rounds of chemotherapy, determined to watch our children grow up. He spent his last three months in a hospice, receiving the best palliative care on offer. Even so, he suffered terribly. Some pain cannot be controlled quickly, and some suffering cannot be treated at all. One evening he screamed in agony while stranded in a bath, unable to move, for nearly an hour before reli

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The Guardian view on trapped leaseholders: Labour must keep its promise to set them free | Editorial

The government pledged to end an unfair system. Ministers must give homeowners power over costs, rather than another place to complain “To the millions of leaseholders across the country, you have my word. The days of you being squeezed for every penny are coming to an end,” Andy Burnham told the Labour party conference . Only a few hours earlier, his housing secretary, Angela Rayner, had announced that the government would legislate for a new independent regulator and launch a consultation to cap “rip off” administrative fees. While these are undoubtedly steps in the right direction, they are miles away from Labour’s manifesto promise to “finally bring the feudal leasehold system to an end”. In its modern form , leasehold in England and Wales turns homes into income streams for freeholder

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