Gove gives up on mandatory housebuilding targets

Significant planning reforms are back on the table as the Housing Secretary confirms the government is standing by its 2019 manifesto pledge to build 300,000 new homes a year by the mid-2020s.

New Prime Minister has appointed familiar faces to key positions in the Cabinet.

"I understand that regional mayors may soon be given the power to ban properties from being used as short-term lets," writes James Forsyth, political editor of The Spectator, in The Times.