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1. Ian Murray, Scotland Secretary, apparently out as well

Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:37 AM

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/05/angela-rayner-stamp-duty-labour-starmer-reform-nigel-farage-uk-politics-live-news-updates

Any ideas why Starmer thinks we can do better than Powell and Murray? They're both low-profile, I'd say, but I can't see brilliant replacements queuing up.

Rayner's resignation looked inevitable after the report; she was careless about stamp duty, and having made her name with attacks on dodgy Tories, she'd have had no way of remaining Housing Secretary without constant attacks about "double standards".

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