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A tax cut for banks described as 'sickening' by one Labour MP was passed in the Commons last night - but how did Devon MPs vote?

Critics, including some Tory MPs, say the plans mean people who live in cheaper houses are more likely to have their assets wiped out if they need care. | ITV National News

HENRY DEEDES: A first at yesterday's Treasury committee: A Chancellor who actually seemed happy to be there. Rishi Sunak was a model of courtly deference as they picked apart his Budget

The seats of Newton Abbot, North Devon, Torbay and Central Devon are proposed to be broadly unchanged, although Poltimore would move into the latter from East Devon. Torridge and West Devon would be renamed Torridge and Tavistock, and see the area around Crapstone, Buckland Monachorum and Meavy moved into the South West Devon constituency, which would in turn lose the area around Modbury, Kingston and Bigbury into the Totnes constituency. In Plymouth, the proposal divides the Peverell ward between the Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, and Plymouth Moor View constituencies in order to keep change...

A Conservative MP has been warned he will face a deluge of messages from campaigners after securing the coveted top spot to introduce legislation to the House of Commons. Mark Jenkinson (Workington) won the private members’ bill ballot, thereby securing first pick when it comes to securing parliamentary time on a sitting Friday to propose a bill he wishes to become law. He finished ahead of Labour MPs Barry Gardiner (Brent North) in second, Carolyn Harris (Swansea East) in third and Conservative former cabinet ministers Liam Fox and Sajid Javid in fourth and fifth respectively. Labour’s K...