Richard Vaughan
@richardvaughan.bsky.social
Chief Political Correspondent with The i Paper. Generally tired.
Exclusive: London councils to raise council tax by over 5% cap without public vote under major local government reforms inews.co.uk/news/politic...
10% council tax hikes for millions to transfer money to North and Midlands
Councils in London could raise taxes by the largest amounts to cover losses from funding reforms
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November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Exclusive: London councils to raise council tax by over 5% cap without public vote under major local government reforms inews.co.uk/news/politic...
EXCLUSIVE: Reeves tells loyalist MPs that expensive homes will be taxed in next week’s Budget as she urges them to trumpet higher taxes on wealthier households
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Mansion tax is coming and the Budget will hit wealthy hardest, Reeves tells MPs
The Chancellor has decided to raise a 'smorgasbord' of taxes rather than hike income tax
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November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Reeves tells loyalist MPs that expensive homes will be taxed in next week’s Budget as she urges them to trumpet higher taxes on wealthier households
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After a tumultuous week in Westminster, Rachel Reeves‘s Budget has now taken on even greater significance
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'Total s**t show': How Reeves has one hour to save the Labour Party
Futures of both the Prime Minister and his Chancellor took a hit in a week of Westminster chaos
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November 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
After a tumultuous week in Westminster, Rachel Reeves‘s Budget has now taken on even greater significance
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Fairly sure this featured in the Alien: Earth series…
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Fairly sure this featured in the Alien: Earth series…
Is the 12% the Treasury?
November 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Is the 12% the Treasury?
Amazing
I was in a meeting where the chart in the Budget showed they were missing the rule. Gordon asked if they could just make the line fatter, so it appeared to meet the axis.. and a certain SPAD (now with a popular podcast) responded "well yes, but we did that last time... there are limits" 🤣
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Amazing
No shit
Virgil van Dijk header should have stood, rules Premier League expert panel
www.thetimes.com/article/9d86...
Virgil van Dijk header should have stood, rules Premier League expert panel
www.thetimes.com/article/9d86...
Virgil van Dijk header should have stood, rules Premier League expert panel
Key Match Incidents panel finds that the onfield call of offside against Liverpool’s Andrew Robertson after captain’s ‘goal’ was incorrect in match against Man City
www.thetimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
No shit
Virgil van Dijk header should have stood, rules Premier League expert panel
www.thetimes.com/article/9d86...
Virgil van Dijk header should have stood, rules Premier League expert panel
www.thetimes.com/article/9d86...
Absolutely gobsmacking this, after the last couple of weeks. Chosen to pick fights with dozens of interest groups. Bizarre.
The UK prime minister and chancellor have 'ripped up' earlier proposals to raise the basic and higher income tax rates, officials have said. on.ft.com/4p819EH
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Absolutely gobsmacking this, after the last couple of weeks. Chosen to pick fights with dozens of interest groups. Bizarre.
Scoop: Treasury looking at handing “asset rich, cash poor” deferment from a mansion tax until the home is sold, under current plans
It reheats proposals put forward by Ed Balls in 2014
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It reheats proposals put forward by Ed Balls in 2014
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Reeves set to defer mansion tax for cash poor who own expensive homes
Chancellor is understood to be considering a mansion tax as part of her Budget plans
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November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Scoop: Treasury looking at handing “asset rich, cash poor” deferment from a mansion tax until the home is sold, under current plans
It reheats proposals put forward by Ed Balls in 2014
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It reheats proposals put forward by Ed Balls in 2014
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Latest on the No10 Starmer-Streeting farago... I think we can call it a farago, no?
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'F**king deranged': How No 10's bid to squash Streeting for leader backfired
A briefing against Wes Streeting has exposed a 'toxic culture' in Downing Street
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November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Latest on the No10 Starmer-Streeting farago... I think we can call it a farago, no?
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Now confirmed. Govt will also offer housebuilders time-limited relief from Infrastructure Levy, which pays for roads, schools etc in bid to get houses built faster.
Big changes to building in the capital...
Big changes to building in the capital...
Exclusive: Labour to allow London developers time-limited cut to affordable homes target or risk having to share profits with councils
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Labour allows developers to cut affordable homes targets in return for profits
Emergency measures introduced to help Government hit 1.5m new homes target threaten major row within Labour
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October 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Now confirmed. Govt will also offer housebuilders time-limited relief from Infrastructure Levy, which pays for roads, schools etc in bid to get houses built faster.
Big changes to building in the capital...
Big changes to building in the capital...
Exclusive: Labour to allow London developers time-limited cut to affordable homes target or risk having to share profits with councils
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Labour allows developers to cut affordable homes targets in return for profits
Emergency measures introduced to help Government hit 1.5m new homes target threaten major row within Labour
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October 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Exclusive: Labour to allow London developers time-limited cut to affordable homes target or risk having to share profits with councils
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How do you deal with all of the UK's past, present and future nuclear waste for the next 250,000 years?
You build a hole up to 1km under the Irish Sea in what will be one of the UK's most complex infrastructure projects - the geological disposal facility:
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You build a hole up to 1km under the Irish Sea in what will be one of the UK's most complex infrastructure projects - the geological disposal facility:
t.co/r2KOKRi0dK
August 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
How do you deal with all of the UK's past, present and future nuclear waste for the next 250,000 years?
You build a hole up to 1km under the Irish Sea in what will be one of the UK's most complex infrastructure projects - the geological disposal facility:
t.co/r2KOKRi0dK
You build a hole up to 1km under the Irish Sea in what will be one of the UK's most complex infrastructure projects - the geological disposal facility:
t.co/r2KOKRi0dK
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The campaign itself seems quite disorientating in retrospect.
The most pro-European party was the Conservative Party, led by Margaret Thatcher.
Papers like The Sun, The Daily Mail & the Telegraph all backed staying in.
The young were more Eurosceptic than the old, and women more hostile than men.
The most pro-European party was the Conservative Party, led by Margaret Thatcher.
Papers like The Sun, The Daily Mail & the Telegraph all backed staying in.
The young were more Eurosceptic than the old, and women more hostile than men.
June 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The campaign itself seems quite disorientating in retrospect.
The most pro-European party was the Conservative Party, led by Margaret Thatcher.
Papers like The Sun, The Daily Mail & the Telegraph all backed staying in.
The young were more Eurosceptic than the old, and women more hostile than men.
The most pro-European party was the Conservative Party, led by Margaret Thatcher.
Papers like The Sun, The Daily Mail & the Telegraph all backed staying in.
The young were more Eurosceptic than the old, and women more hostile than men.
UK's Trump deal threatens CO2 shortage - hitting meat, beer and NHS operations
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UK's Trump deal threatens CO2 shortage - hitting meat, beer and NHS operations
Closure of bioethanol plants runs risk of repeat of 2021 CO2 crisis
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June 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
UK's Trump deal threatens CO2 shortage - hitting meat, beer and NHS operations
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“We need to stop the foreigners coming in,” says another attendee. What about the Brits, I ask, not disguising my accent. “There are too many Brits, too many Chinese, too many Europeans.”
DC sounds...erm...interesting
www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
DC sounds...erm...interesting
www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
My night out with Trump’s young Maga crowd in Washington
Katy Balls spent a decade working in Westminster and is now in Washington for The Times. How do the two worlds compare? She goes out with Natalie Winters
www.thetimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
“We need to stop the foreigners coming in,” says another attendee. What about the Brits, I ask, not disguising my accent. “There are too many Brits, too many Chinese, too many Europeans.”
DC sounds...erm...interesting
www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
DC sounds...erm...interesting
www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
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NEW
Angela Rayner will this week set out a raft of reforms to end the dominance of major housebuilders and give smaller developers a greater market share to help the Government meet its 1.5m new homes target.
Exclusive by @richardvaughan.bsky.social for @theipaper.com
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Angela Rayner will this week set out a raft of reforms to end the dominance of major housebuilders and give smaller developers a greater market share to help the Government meet its 1.5m new homes target.
Exclusive by @richardvaughan.bsky.social for @theipaper.com
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Rayner to cut levels of 'identikit' homes by helping small developers build more
The i Paper understands the move will deliver a more diverse supply of housing styles and free up developers from a 'web of regulation'
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May 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
NEW
Angela Rayner will this week set out a raft of reforms to end the dominance of major housebuilders and give smaller developers a greater market share to help the Government meet its 1.5m new homes target.
Exclusive by @richardvaughan.bsky.social for @theipaper.com
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Angela Rayner will this week set out a raft of reforms to end the dominance of major housebuilders and give smaller developers a greater market share to help the Government meet its 1.5m new homes target.
Exclusive by @richardvaughan.bsky.social for @theipaper.com
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For years it was something written off as being always "50 years away" but now the UK is among the leaders in developing fusion energy...
And it could arrive sooner than you think: inews.co.uk/news/politic...
And it could arrive sooner than you think: inews.co.uk/news/politic...
'Holy grail' of limitless clean energy could be here by 2040
Nuclear fusion's proponents describe the opportunity to dominate what is set to become a £30trn sector as the 'UK's Nasa moment'
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May 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
For years it was something written off as being always "50 years away" but now the UK is among the leaders in developing fusion energy...
And it could arrive sooner than you think: inews.co.uk/news/politic...
And it could arrive sooner than you think: inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Not sure that is its most significant (or most brutal) flaw.
May 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Not sure that is its most significant (or most brutal) flaw.
💥Labour 2024 intake warn of a 'huge' breakdown in trust between them and No 10
PM due to face a fractious party in PLP meeting on Monday.
One MP summarising the mood said there was anger at the Govt plan to “tell the best of our movement to walk into the machine guns".
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PM due to face a fractious party in PLP meeting on Monday.
One MP summarising the mood said there was anger at the Govt plan to “tell the best of our movement to walk into the machine guns".
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https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/we-fked-it-with-winter-fuel-inside-the-labour-mutiny-as-mps-turn-on-starmer-3700392
t.co
May 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
💥Labour 2024 intake warn of a 'huge' breakdown in trust between them and No 10
PM due to face a fractious party in PLP meeting on Monday.
One MP summarising the mood said there was anger at the Govt plan to “tell the best of our movement to walk into the machine guns".
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
PM due to face a fractious party in PLP meeting on Monday.
One MP summarising the mood said there was anger at the Govt plan to “tell the best of our movement to walk into the machine guns".
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Starmer's right-hand man has become a lightning rod for Labour anger, but is he really to blame?
@richardvaughan.bsky.social, @whazell.bsky.social and @eleanormia.bsky.social report
@richardvaughan.bsky.social, @whazell.bsky.social and @eleanormia.bsky.social report
Labour's real PM? No 10 chief blamed for Starmer's tilt to the right
The Prime Minister's right-hand man has become a lightning rod for Labour anger, but is he really to blame?
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May 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Starmer's right-hand man has become a lightning rod for Labour anger, but is he really to blame?
@richardvaughan.bsky.social, @whazell.bsky.social and @eleanormia.bsky.social report
@richardvaughan.bsky.social, @whazell.bsky.social and @eleanormia.bsky.social report
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"The very fact that Tories are even discussing the idea of changing leader, demonstrates how big a challenge Badenoch has on her hands"
🔎 Analysis by Richard Vaughan, Kitty Donaldson and Arj Singh
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🔎 Analysis by Richard Vaughan, Kitty Donaldson and Arj Singh
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May 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"The very fact that Tories are even discussing the idea of changing leader, demonstrates how big a challenge Badenoch has on her hands"
🔎 Analysis by Richard Vaughan, Kitty Donaldson and Arj Singh
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🔎 Analysis by Richard Vaughan, Kitty Donaldson and Arj Singh
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Andrea Jenkyns is the new Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire. Wonder what her message to the Conservatives will be?
May 2, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Andrea Jenkyns is the new Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire. Wonder what her message to the Conservatives will be?
Teaching union tells school to drop investigation into staff member over misconduct allegations. School refuses. Union calls strikes over next three weeks during GCSEs
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Three-week strike during GCSEs by union 'holding school to ransom'
Strikes were triggered after the union allegedly demanded an investigation into a staff member be dropped by the school
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May 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Teaching union tells school to drop investigation into staff member over misconduct allegations. School refuses. Union calls strikes over next three weeks during GCSEs
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With both sides talking of local council coalitions, could a Tory-Reform alliance at the general election be next?
🔎 Big read by @richardvaughan.bsky.social, @kitty-donaldson.bsky.social and @arjsingh.bsky.social
🔎 Big read by @richardvaughan.bsky.social, @kitty-donaldson.bsky.social and @arjsingh.bsky.social
Badenoch's team privately discuss pact with Reform
With both sides talking of local council coalitions, could a Tory-Reform alliance at the general election be next?
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April 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
With both sides talking of local council coalitions, could a Tory-Reform alliance at the general election be next?
🔎 Big read by @richardvaughan.bsky.social, @kitty-donaldson.bsky.social and @arjsingh.bsky.social
🔎 Big read by @richardvaughan.bsky.social, @kitty-donaldson.bsky.social and @arjsingh.bsky.social