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MAGIC NUMBERS
In the budget, Rachel Reeves promised a crackdown on illicit businesses – but the practicalities of this suggest this lofty aim will be a stretch.

HOTEL RESERVATIONS
New statistics show 36,273 asylum seekers in hotel accommodation – 2 percent higher than last year, despite Labour's manifesto promise to clear the backlog.

ADOPTED POSITION
Adoptive parents say the government's cuts to funding for specialist therapies for traumatised children risk undoing all their sacrifices and hard work.

HOUSING NEWS
As Labour MPs celebrated the scrapping of the two-child benefit limit, two more unpopular decisions were sneaked out at the end of a written answer.

CALLED TO ORDURE
Lady Carr, head of the judiciary in England and Wales, had the air of an Edwardian beak when she appeared before the Commons justice committee.

REFORM CLUB
Reform UK's plan to re-introduce non-dom tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy is drawing them – and their donations – to the party like bees to a honeypot.

POSTERS FOR SALE
Those behind the PoliticsUK social media account have been caught out taking money in exchange for posts talking up Chinese investment in the UK.

ARCHBISHOP OF CANT
Having resigned from the exclusive Travellers Club in 2014 over its continuing exclusion of women, ex-archbishop Justin Welby has now applied to rejoin.

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Burning ears
Why Drax's management are revolting

Rich pitch
Reform UK has found a route to generous donations

Tommy knockers
The Mail on Sunday's hold on Thomas Markle

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