Angela Rayner: “I want to fully test whether our proposals for local government reorganisation meet the priorities of a new…”

I do not take this lightly. I recognise the huge amount of work that has already gone into progressing reorganisation in each of these areas and I am very grateful for it.

If I'm making a decision that is highly likely to be in legal challenge, I want to make sure I've dotted my i's and crossed my t's.

I am capping and then scrapping ground rents.

We will legislate for an independent regulation to rein these cowboys in.