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# ![@Peston Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::14157134.png) @Peston Robert Peston

Kemi Badenoch and Mel Stride are leading a Tory conference push to revive the party, with policies aimed at appealing to younger voters and tackling economic issues. Badenoch emphasized the need for economic success and criticized the current state of the UK economy, suggesting a shift towards a more conservative economic approach. The conference also saw interventions from other prominent figures, including Heseltine, who criticized Farage and Reform UK.

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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"How to fix Britain Kish and I have a few ideas. You can read them today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1836680719042527640) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2024-09-19T08:16Z 1.3M followers, 777.5K engagements


"So apparently GPs - like the UKs leading Magic Circle law firm Slaughters - are typically general partnerships not limited liability partnerships (please correct me if this is wrong - but it is what the Treasury seems to believe). And the Chancellor is likely to exempt general partnerships if - when - they impose employers national insurance on limited liability partnerships. So maybe the political storm of whacking up taxes on the family doctor can be avoided"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1980928273338032520) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-22T09:24Z 1.3M followers, 304.5K engagements


"According to the official readout of todays cabinet meeting the chief secretary to the prime minister told ministers this: We have to build a new state and shut down the legacy state with digital ID making people's experience of that new state fundamentally much better. Blimey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983231551623016824) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-28T17:57Z 1.3M followers, 569.1K engagements


"Big moment at #PMQs. Keir Starmer refused to say he would stand by Labours manifesto promise not to raise income tax national insurance VAT or corporation tax. It is increasingly clear the budget will include a significant rise in income tax - because it is the only clean way ministers believe to fill the 35bn budget black hole"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983506906262995081) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-29T12:11Z 1.3M followers, 536.5K engagements


"Peston: Why Rachel Reeves is likely to put up income tax ITV News"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983562679710056634) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-29T15:52Z 1.3M followers, 61K engagements


"How do we make big business behave How can investors compel companies to pay the real living wage and stop selling foods that make us obese And why are American fund managers so scared of Trumps anti woke agenda Our new Rest is Money pod episode is a chat with Catherine Howarth Chief Executive of ShareAction the leading European NGO that tries to make big business act responsibly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983820444319805621) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-30T08:57Z 1.3M followers, 20.3K engagements


"Kemi Badenochs call for Starmer to sack Reeves for failing to register her family home when she rented it on moving to Downing Street lowers the bar quite significantly for sackable offences by ministers. I am not certain all her shadow cabinet colleagues will thank her. The point is that there is a clear distinction between Rayners failure to take stamp duty advice and Reevess failure to register her home with the council for rent. In the case of Rayner there was the potential for very large personal material gain. Her dismissal was inevitable. In Reevess case its theoretically possible that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983814792549716039) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-30T08:34Z 1.3M followers, 444K engagements


"From the @FT. Whoops Chancellor Rachel Reeves could be ordered to repay more than 38000 in rent after admitting breaching housing rules by unlawfully renting out her family home without a licence. Southwark council which runs the borough where Reeves rented out the home says tenants have the right to apply for a refund of their rent during the period in which the property was let out without a licence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983871439355736182) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-30T12:19Z 1.3M followers, 87.2K engagements


"Here is Maccabis statement about why the club has decided not to sell any tickets for the Villa game. Does this let the government off the hook or is it an embarrassment for the UK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1980390404639060243) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-20T21:47Z 1.3M followers, 57.3K engagements


"If Rachel Reeves were to increase the basic rate of income tax it would be the first rise in the basic rate since 1975 () when Harold Wilson raised it to 35%. Successive Tory and Labour governments have subsequently cut it to the XX% rate of today. And by the way only increasing the basic rate raises significant sums according to the governments own sums. A 1p increase in the basic rate would raise 8.2bn 1p on the 40p rate garners 2.1bn and 1p on the 45p rate just 230m. If there were a 2p increase on all the rates that would potentially raise 20bn - which would be a meaningful contribution to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983524453897175075) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-29T13:20Z 1.3M followers, 465.7K engagements


"Just so you can enjoy the full comedy this is the Chancellors letter to the PM from last night - released at 11.26pm when many of you were asleep - which tells a starkly different story about why she and her husband didnt apply for a renters licence compared to that of her latest letter that I posted below. As unforced errors go this takes quite a big biscuit Dear Keir I wanted to make you aware of a matter which has been brought to my attention regarding my family home which we are letting out to tenants via an external lettings agency. The property is situated in Dulwich Wood ward of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983964683100164175) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-30T18:30Z 1.3M followers, 5547 engagements


"And here is the Chancellors new letter to the PM about this comedy of rental errors Dear Keir Further to our exchange of letters last night I wanted to update you with further information. Yesterday I wrote to you and said that we were not aware that a licence was necessary to let out our property based on conversations my husband had with the agency yesterday. Today the letting agency and my husband have found correspondence confirming that on 17th July 2024 the letting agent said to my husband that a Selective Licence would be required and agreed that the agency would apply for the licence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983964818744000645) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-30T18:30Z 1.3M followers, 146.4K engagements


"This today from @ONS: In London the average home was not affordable for any household income decile; in three other regions the average home was only affordable to the top decile. This in a nutshell is the UK housing crisis for younger people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1866062221819969926) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2024-12-09T10:07Z 1.3M followers, 375.7K engagements


"Dominic Cummings tells me about why he sees China as an enemy state in this latest episode of Talking Politics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1979250871134310691) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-17T18:19Z 1.3M followers, 147.2K engagements


"Tonights #peston is immigration the threat from China racism allegations Labour and Tory collapse in Caerphilly and Prince Andrew. ITV XXXXX. With Kemi Badenoch John Healey Stephen Flynn and Esther McVey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1982935374419898790) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-27T22:20Z 1.3M followers, 28.5K engagements


"Lucy Powell is elected deputy leader of Labour Party with XX% of votes. Participation of eligible members was low at XXXX% of those eligible to vote"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1982011623440339007) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-25T09:09Z 1.3M followers, 48.9K engagements


"Apathy was the big winner in Labours leadership election with the candidate called CBA receiving the backing of more than XX% of those eligible to vote. Of the XXXX% of the electorate who did bother to tick a box XX% supported Lucy Powell who becomes deputy leader. Both the formal election result and the revealed apathy of members plus affiliated trade unionists should be a concern to the prime minister. Thats because his party showed a preference for someone he sacked from the cabinet having stood up for Labour MPs who rejected his welfare reforms. She was the not-the-Starmer-loyalist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1982035023734673493) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-25T10:42Z 1.3M followers, 61.7K engagements


"Reform + Greens Labour + Tory. Amazing times"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983588025721319695) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-29T17:33Z 1.3M followers, 64.4K engagements


"Kemi Badenochs call for Starmer to sack Reeves for failing to register her family home when she rented it on moving to Downing Street lowers the bar quite significantly for sackable offences by ministers. I am not certain all her shadow cabinet colleagues will thank her. The point is that there is a clear distinction between Rayners failure to take stamp duty advice and Reevess failure to register her home with the council for rent. In the case of Rayner there was the potential for very large personal material gain. Her dismissal was inevitable. In Reevess case its theoretically possible that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983811874626912655) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-30T08:23Z 1.3M followers, 5794 engagements


"There is new info on Reeves and her failure to register as a landlord - from this afternoons Downing St briefing. I have pasted it below. It is possible when Ive seen the relevant emails that I will change the judgement I made thus morning Following a review of emails sent and received by the chancellors husband Nick Joicey new information has come to light. It has passed to the PM and independent ethics advisor. The emails will be published for us to see later today PM retains full confidence in Reeves the ethics advisor can decide to take a variety of actions. He will look at all the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983938304446812167) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-30T16:45Z 1.3M followers, 218.9K engagements


"On the 20th anniversary of the UK citizenship test ITVs What You Need to Know set me some sample questions. See if I passed by clicking here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983947053026910227) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-30T17:20Z 1.3M followers, 39.3K engagements


"PA: Harvey & Wheeler the estate agents used by Rachel Reeves to rent out her property in south London have apologised to her for an "oversight" after they did not apply for a licence on her behalf having offered to do so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983950108157767979) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-30T17:32Z 1.3M followers, 144K engagements


"Full PA article on why her estate agency failed to apply for the rental licence: The lettings agency involved in Chancellor Rachel Reeves rental arrangements said it had apologised to her for an oversight that led to a failure to obtain a licence. Gareth Martin owner of Harvey & Wheeler said: We alert all our clients to the need for a licence. In an effort to be helpful our previous property manager offered to apply for a licence on these clients behalf as shown in the correspondence. That property manager suddenly resigned on the Friday before the tenancy began on the following Monday."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983951104317780405) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-30T17:36Z 1.3M followers, 309.3K engagements


"So in the end it turns out that Rachel Reevess husband did know they needed a renters licence and was told by the estate agent it would arrange it - which the agent then failed to do. Quite why the chancellor said last night that her mistake was not knowing a licence would be needed is now a mystery. This is a comedy of errors which slightly undermines confidence in the veracity of government statements. But my judgement this morning that the failure to register as a renter looked like an embarrassing cock-up rather than a crime seems to me to hold up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983957291935342967) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-30T18:00Z 1.3M followers, 375.1K engagements


"And here is the Chancellors letter to the PM about this comedy of rental errors Dear Keir Further to our exchange of letters last night I wanted to update you with further information. Yesterday I wrote to you and said that we were not aware that a licence was necessary to let out our property based on conversations my husband had with the agency yesterday. Today the letting agency and my husband have found correspondence confirming that on 17th July 2024 the letting agent said to my husband that a Selective Licence would be required and agreed that the agency would apply for the licence on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983958663581856000) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-30T18:06Z 1.3M followers, 45.1K engagements


"This is a jaw dropping statement from the King A STATEMENT FROM BUCKINGHAM PALACE His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. His lease on Royal Lodge has to date provided him with legal protection to continue in residence. Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation. These censures are deemed necessary notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him. Their Majesties wish"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983974514552611099) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-30T19:09Z 1.3M followers, 900.7K engagements


"It is this statement from the King about Andrew that I regard as truly remarkable because it did not need to be said and because it is red hot with regal fury: These censures are deemed necessary notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Peston/status/1983979733759996243) [@Peston](/creator/x/Peston) 2025-10-30T19:30Z 1.3M followers, 270K engagements