The UK government’s rules are so complex even its own government ministers have found themselves unable to comply with them, with the country’s second-in-command the Chancellor having been found to have misled the Prime Minister and nation over a London home.

Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) Rachel Reeves is less than a month from setting out the hotly anticipated and increasingly feared national budget, yet she has been engulfed in a scandal of her own making which her boss the Prime Minister has rushed to dismiss, to save her job as much as his own. It has been revealed that Reeves failed to apply for a $1,300 license — a tax on landlords dressed up as a tenant protection scheme, a dispassionate observer might conclude — on a London home she owns and has been renting out s

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