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  • Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove

    Renters' reform bill
    Sunak and Gove accused of caving in to lobbying in favour of landlords

  • Young woman with bill in hand studying her electricity meter

    Bills
    UK households urged to submit meter readings ahead of energy price cut

    Martin Lewis among those encouraging consumers to make a note so they do not overpay when cap reduced
  • Tony Blair chairs cabinet in 1999

    Pay
    Minimum wage is UK’s ‘most successful economic policy in a generation’

    Resolution Foundation study suggests lowest earners are £6,000 a year better off due to policy
  • Environment
    Study of UK’s top bamboo loo rolls show some are made from other woods

  • Energy
    New blow to British smart meter rollout as number of faulty machines leaps to 4m

  • Pensions
    Little planning for looming retirement crisis, BlackRock chief warns

  • Covid-19
    Boots to offer vaccines in England for nearly £100 a jab

  • Energy bills
    Ofgem considers varying price cap based on time of day

  • It’s daylight e-robbery
    How entrepreneurs feel powerless as their work is ripped off

  • First-time buyers
    Five ways to get on the property ladder

  • Football Index
    Three years on, users are still trying to get their money back

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Expert advice

  • Airbnb advertises its city breaks but in Toronto it was not quite the experience hoped for.

    Consumer champions
    Airbnb host increased price by 39% after booking

  • A picture of the Churchill website

    Consumer champions
    My car was a write-off – and so was Churchill’s paltry offer

  • A stethoscope beside a travel insurance claim form

    Your problems, with Anna Tims
    Travel agent won’t cancel my sick mother’s holiday

  • HMRC web page showing how to check you are paying the correct amount of tax

    Your problems, with Anna Tims
    HMRC’s bill looks like a scam, but it’s impossible to check

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Opinion

  • Illustration of woman with pram passing homeless person

    Britain seems stuck in a doom loop of poverty. I have a plan to raise billions to address that

    Gordon Brown
  • To Let and For Sale signs

    Letters
    AI can help us find the right policies to fix the housing crisis

    • Illustration: Guardian Design/Alamy.

      Our lack of affordable, safe housing is a national crisis. Here are three things Labour can do to fix it

      Peter Apps
    • Two pensioners at a cash machine in Falmouth, Cornwall<br>GWYR1C Two pensioners at a cash machine in Falmouth, Cornwall

      The poor need the money, the rich may not – but I say hands off the state pension triple lock

      Owen Jones
    • Margaret Thatcher (right) visiting the Parker family of Northolt, London, who were among the first to buy their council house under the new law in May 1978.

      Councils now sell off more houses than they build. Thatcher’s legacy, right to buy, is a failure

      Phineas Harper
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In pictures

  • A starter homes in Corbridge, Northumberland.

    Fantasy house hunt
    Dream homes for first-time buyers in England

  • Wisteria-clad Grasmere House

    Fantasy house hunt
    Homes for sale in England with great gardens for spring

    From a wisteria-clad grand house to a pretty cottage with roses as its theme
  • Home in Newport, Shropshire

    Fantasy house hunt
    Homes for sale with a wine cellar – in pictures

    From a grand Regency property with a vaulted cellar to a Californian-style house with a circular vault
  • Attractive house painted blue

    Fantasy house hunt
    Homes for sale in England linked to film and TV

  • Large building in green landscape

    Fantasy house hunt
    Historic homes for sale

  • Barton End Farmhouse

    Fantasy house hunt
    Homes for sale near great pubs

  • Terrace cottage in Bruntsfield, a mile south of Edinburgh.

    Fantasy house hunt
    Homes for sale in urban villages

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    Stamp duty calculator

  • Family on holiday

    Factsheet: Travel insurance

  • Monopoly houses on a pile of coins

    House prices: what do the different indices show?

  • Buying a house

    Factsheet: Buying a home

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  • Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove

    Property
    Sunak and Gove accused of caving in to lobbying in favour of landlords

  • Illustration: Mark Long

    Mortgages
    First-time buyer schemes: five ways to get on the UK property ladder

    • Consumer affairs
      Airbnb host increased price by 39% after booking

    • Pensions
      Labour has 99% chance of forming next government, says elections expert – as it happened

    • Savings
      First-time buyer schemes: five ways to get on the UK property ladder

    • Money
      I bought a vehicle from a used car yard. More and more problems emerge with it. What can I do?

    • Pensions
      Pension age changes have cost me dearly

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