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Arne Slot has confirmed Mohamed Salah will join up with Egypt for the Africa Cup of Nations on December 15.

🇬🇧🏠 We purchased a modest little townhouse in Fulham many moons ago, back when you could still get change from a half a million quid in SW6. Fast forward to 2025 and it now scrapes the £2m mark, literally the borderline where Labour’s threatened “mansion tax” starts to bite. Our long-term tenant has always flirted with the idea of buying it ... Last week I finally asked if they were serious. Reply came back: “Thanks, but no thanks, don’t fancy being anchored to a £2m+ London property with all the extra taxes looming.” ☹️ So here I am: Can’t raise the rent (Section 21 gone, rent caps maybe on the horizon too - don't rule it out!!) Can’t sell it for what it’s actually worth (buyer pool shrinks the moment you get close to that dreaded £2m threshold). Next year the bank revalues it for the remortgage… fingers crossed they don’t suddenly decide it’s only worth £1.5m (it would not surprise if they do!) and wipe out all of our equity in one stroke! 💡 Lesson of the day: stay well away from buy-to-let, especially single family houses. The golden decade is firmly behind us, the goalposts have been moved, and the taxman is warming up in the tunnel. Anyone want a very expensive, very illiquid brick box in Fulham? No? Thought as much! Here is hoping to better times!

This is the best I've seen Kemi Badenoch, and among the best opposition responses I've seen to a budget. Helped by the OBR leak no doubt, which gave her more time than most hand. But the blows are landing.