Labour cabinet reshuffle live: David Lammy appointed deputy prime minister, Shabana Mahmood appointed home secretary after Angela Rayner resigns

Jacob Rees-Mogg said his daughter has joined Reform “but I’m not going to”.

He said he was “having his arm twisted” by his daughter, who he was “embarrassed” to say had joined Reform.

Mr Rees-Mogg said: “Mary has joined Reform … but I’m not going to.

“I’m going to remain a Tory because I think it is fundamental that we bring the family of the right together.”

Speaking at an event at the Reform conference alongside historian David Starkey, he said the “family of the right” needed to unite in a first-past-the-post system to win a majority.

The debate over former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner’s tax arrangements demonstrated that there are few topics more complex than the law of trusts. It was politically awkward, to say the least, when a deputy PM and housing secretary had to admit getting it wrong and underpaying £40,000 in stamp duty.

In Rayner’s case, a probable oversight and a trust created with legitimate intentions got caught up in legislation designed to discourage tax avoidance and ownership of a second home. Of course, it also left her open to accusations of hypocrisy, as a member of a government that championed higher taxes for second homeowners.

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As the dust settles on Keir Starmer’s first major reshuffle and politicos begin to scour the names of the ministers in his new cabinet, one could be forgiven to wonder whether anything much had changed at all.

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Lucy Connolly will appear on stage at the Reform Party conference on Saturday before Nigel Farage closes the event in Birmingham.

The former childminder and wife of a Conservative councillor was jailed for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers in the aftermath of the Southport murders last year.

The party’s deputy leader Richard Tice is then due to give an address before Mr Farage speaks to close the two-day event at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham.

The main stage will also see a speech titled “Make Britain Healthy Again” by Dr Assem Malhotra, a cardiologist who campaigned against the use of the Covid mRNA vaccines.

“You have been a trusted colleague and a true friend for many years,” Sir Keir Starmer wrote, glossing over that time he tried to demote her for daring to plot against him, only for her to emerge with more titles than the local library.

But Starmer’s distress was authentic, in that he has lost someone he has learned to value, and who was an important and complementary part of his government. He needed someone with her instinctive political skills, for example, to defuse the Labour MPs’ rebellion over disability benefits.

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Kemi Badenoch, with another sadly lacklustre week of leading His Majesty’s official Opposition behind her, has had an unexpected boost – Nadine Dorries has defected from the Conservatives to Reform UK.

Whatever limited gifts she brought to high office, Dorries has long outlived her usefulness to her party and the nation, and Badenoch can be forgiven for thinking that Farage is welcome to her.

For the voting public, post-Boris, Dorries is no more than a reminder of a past record of sleaze, self-indulgence and incompetence that the Conservatives desperately need to leave behind. The defenestration of Angela Rayner may hurt Labour, but it won’t necessarily bring much of a boost to the Tories. For that, they need to purge the worst elements of their past. That includes Nadine.

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Nigel Farage has said he mis-spoke when he said he bought a house in Clacton before the last election.

He told Sky News: “I should have said ‘we’. All right? My partner bought it, so what?”

He said it was “her money” and “her asset”.

“I own none of it. But I just happen to spend some time there.”

He added: “I should have rephrased it. I didn’t want … to put her in the public domain.”

Members at Reform UK’s conference have passed a motion that calls for the party’s immigration policy to be widened so asylum approvals made by previous Labour and Conservative governments would be re-examined.

Lancashire county council deputy leader councillor Simon Evans proposed the motion, which would see a review of immigration decisions on potential illegal migrants, where the police national computer and counter terror checks were bypassed.

He told the party’s conference in Birmingham that it could see Britain “saved”. It was passed unanimously by activists at the NEC.

Other motions were carried, including one that would see the party call for the repeal of the 2008 Climate Change Act.

The motion put forward by Doncaster councillor Rachel Reed said current legislation meant costs for billpayers which were “daylight robbery”.

The party also passed a motion by a similar margin on gender ideology and protecting single-sex spaces. It would call for the removal of “gender ideology from public organisations”.

The Reform UK leader said last year he had bought a home in his Clacton constituency, but it was later reported that his partner had actually made the purchase.

Questions about the purchase have resurfaced after Angela Rayner resigned on Friday over underpaying stamp duty, triggering a major Cabinet reshuffle.

Separately, Mr Farage has also reportedly been using a private company to reduce how much tax he pays on his GB News media appearances and other work outside being an MP.

He has declared payments of more than £300,000 in the past year for hosting a show on the channel.

The Guardian reported that he diverts money earned from the show into his company, Thorn in the Side Ltd, meaning he paid only 25% corporation tax on profits rather than 40%.

The use of personal service companies is not illegal but has been criticised in recent years.

A spokesperson for Mr Farage told The Guardian: “Thorn in the Side Ltd has traded for 15 years and has a variety of interests. It renders the services of several contractors and is a properly functioning company.”

It is unclear whether Ms Rayner will take severance pay following her resignation, but Mr Jones said it would a “decision personally for her, as opposed to the Prime Minister”.

Labour has changed the system so that any ministers who leave office following a “serious breach” of the code will be denied a payout under rules expected to come into force next month.

From October, it will be for the Prime Minister to decide whether the rule-breaking in question meets threshold.

Speaking to Times Radio, Mr Jones said: “Just as a matter of fact, in this circumstance, that is a decision personally for Angela Rayner as opposed to for the Prime Minister, which is how that will work when our new rules become live next month.”