From Westminster to Washington… Follow trusted coverage of the stories that are shaping our world. |  | Victoria Ward Deputy Royal Editor | The King has made what he surely hopes will be his final move.
After days and weeks of yet further lurid headlines about the man formerly known as Prince Andrew, the long-suffering monarch pulled the metaphorical trigger.
It was an option that had long been on the table. But to forcibly remove his younger brother’s titles and evict him from his family home was always going to be the very last resort.
History will now mark this day as a defining moment of the King’s reign. But it is one in which he has full public and political support.
Some will argue that he should have acted sooner.
But in officially removing all of his brother’s titles and honours, in rendering him a simple commoner, the King has demonstrated that when push comes to shove, he is tough enough to take a stand, to put the future of the monarchy above blood ties.
For Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, as he will now be known, the humiliation is complete.
There is no other member of the family who has so visibly revelled in the trappings of royal life.
They have gradually been taken from him, piece by piece, move by move. Now, there is nothing else to take.
Whether it finally ends this blight on the King’s reign remains to be seen.
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‘It’s not enough’, says Virginia Giuffre’s family ➤ | | Daniel Martin Deputy Political Editor | Sir Keir Starmer took the extraordinary step late last night of publicly criticising his Chancellor after she broke housing rules.
Downing Street published the letter the Prime Minister sent to the Chancellor, ticking her off for changing her story about why she had not applied for a special licence before renting out her family home in south London.
On Wednesday night Ms Reeves told Sir Keir that she and her husband had not been aware that they needed a licence, but emails published on Thursday afternoon showed that her husband had indeed discussed the licence with the family’s letting agent.
Sir Keir said this oversight was “regrettable”, but said he would not be taking any further action against her, and considers the matter closed.
It came after the letting agency used by the Reeves family apologised for having not sorted out the licence when they said they were going to.
Sir Laurie Magnus, the independent adviser on ministerial interests, said he believed Ms Reeves had committed an “unfortunate but inadvertent error” and that there was no need for her to resign.
Ms Reeves will hope that Sir Laurie’s conclusion will turn the page on the scandal, which emerged just four weeks before she is set to deliver her second Budget.
But the Tories are sure to go on the attack today, as questions remain over why Ms Reeves was unable to tell the full story on Wednesday night. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has already accused the Government of a “cover-up”.
The Chancellor has still not said whether she would agree to pay back £38,000 to her tenants, who are entitled to claim a year’s rent for living in an unlicensed property.
Read the full story here and read the embarrassing saga of Ms Reeves’s housing scandal here ➤
Elsewhere, in another headache for Sir Keir, Labour has been accused of abandoning welfare cuts after admitting that its flagship review of disability benefits will save no money.
Official documents reveal that a review of the Personal Independence Payments (PIP) will not look at ways to bring down the ballooning cost of the benefit. Instead, it will only ensure the system is “fair and fit”.
Tim Wallace, our Deputy Economics Editor, reports that the revelation will fuel fears of significant tax increases in next month’s Budget as Ms Reeves struggles to rein in runaway government spending. Economists believe the Chancellor must find as much as £40bn in either tax rises or spending cuts to fix her plans.
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If you enjoy travelling by train – as I still do, despite the cost and the crowdedness – it’s hard to see what’s not to like about the double-decker variety. It’s twice as much train, isn’t it? Anything likely to result in fewer journeys spent standing between carriages gets my vote.
Eurostar is planning to introduce double-deckers on routes running out of London’s St Pancras. Why stop there? But The Telegraph’s Chris Moss has sounded a note of scepticism: after all, Britain’s previous flirtations with two-storey carriages never really worked out.
Peter Williams cautioned against idealising this continental commonplace: “Having travelled on TGV double-deckers a few times, I would note that they are far from perfect. Carrying luggage to the top tier is quite awkward with the small stairs and short, rigidly enforced stop times. And when at speed, the top deck does move about quite a bit.”
Grenville Gifford suspected those stop times would still be too sluggish for commuter traffic: “Back in the day, when slam-door stock was common in Britain, a full carriage could disembark in a minute or so, beginning before the train even came to a standstill. I suspect double-deckers would have a much slower turnaround.”
Richard Nicholl, however, would like to see more here: “On the Continent and in Japan, I have seen double-decker carriages alongside single-deck ones, and they have been the same height. The lower carriages just sit closer to the track. They have answered the problem of loading and unloading by adding an extra door in the middle. So there would be no need for changing bridges or track structure, and using double-deckers would solve the capacity issue on busier lines.” Time for British trains to double up? Let me know what you think here, and your reply may feature in a future edition of From the Editor PM, for which you can sign up here. | | Find as many words as you can in today’s Panagram, including the nine-letter solution. Visit Telegraph Puzzles to play a range of head-scratching games, including PlusWord, Sorted, and Quick, Mini or Cryptic Crosswords.
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