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I’m on holiday in Scotland and it hasn’t stopped raining since we arrived. I need cheering up. City to win 4-1. Please. 🙏

And Money.

I think the most likely outcome is that Rayner will be charged a penalty for making a careless error in completing her SDLT1 tax form. This is a civil penalty, not a criminal one for tax evasion, so it will not technically be a fine. Some may take the view that she is guilty of tax evasion but...

David Lammy is the new deputy prime minister and justice secretary. Yvette Cooper moves to foreign secretary. I wonder if Pat McFadden might be the new home secretary. P.S. Shabana Mahmood is the new home secretary.

With such a large majority I can't see it, unless the Labour backbenchers start to wrest control of policy away from Starmer and make his position untenable. It's not impossible, given the revolt over spending cuts, but with the current state of the polls I can't see turkeys voting for...

The field of competent candidates is a small one. My money is on Pat McFadden.

This is from her resignation letter: She was apparently advised by two of her professional advisers (one being the conveyancers who acted on the purchase of the Hove property, the other being presumably the solictors to the trust) to seek specialist tax advice but she failed to do so. It is...

Sky saying she has resigned her government positions and also as deputy leader.

The clever move, from the point of view of her own self-interest, would probably be to resign from that position but stand in the ensuing party election. She is supposedly very popular with the party members, in which case she would probably be re-elected. That would give her a stronger mandate...

From what I have read that was the purchase price paid to her by the trust for acquiring a quarter share in the Manchester house. It's not necessarily wrong but great care is required as a trustee cannot benefit personally from a trust. Dealings between the trust and a trustee would need to be...

The UNOFFICIAL breaking news is that Rayner is for the chop.

Probably not but I still think he will do well. At the start of the season I thought that, if he stayed fit, he would probably score ten goals. I now reckon he could get fifteen, which would be great for a midfielder.

I think he will see his contract with us out. If I remember correctly it is up at the end of the season. He can take stock then and see where we are and what offers come in when the end of season managerial merry-go-round starts. I reckon he will go if we aren't promoted but stay, at least for...

Scored for Belgium U 21s tonight.

Claiming, for council tax purposes, that the Manchester property was her main home and for SDLT purposes that it was Hove doesn't pass the sniff test, especially as it is likely to be the grace and favour apartment in London. "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive".

Shoosmiths, who set up the trust, are a large and very reputable law firm. I would be astonished if they didn't advise AR, as settlor, that she was deemed to have retained an interest in the property.

I told my wife the other day what I thought had happened and it is looking increasingly likely that I was correct. I reckon the Licensed Conveyancers will have completed the SDLT return and in doing so will have asked AR if she owned any other properties and she told them that she didn't. That...

They weren't solicitors. Raynor used a cheap, backstreet firm of Licensed Conveyancers.

When your own words come back to haunt you: