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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Hundreds of forgotten plots of land will be turned into high-quality new homes under a new pilot scheme announced by the government and developed with cities through Lloyds Banking Group's Social Housing Initiative.
61% : SUBSCRIBE to the POLITICO newsletter family: Brussels Playbook | London Playbook | London Playbook PM | Playbook Paris | EU Election Playbook | Berlin Playbook | Global Playbook | POLITICO Confidential | Sunday Crunch
60% : Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel in conversation with the Coalition for Global Prosperity (2 p.m., Exchange 2-3) ...
59% : JOB AD: No. 10 is after a new briefing SpAd for an expanded team to get top ministers up to speed for media and parliamentary appearances.
58% : Government, for the Tories, must feel a distant memory.
56% : Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government and the Clooney Foundation for Justice launch the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice (5 p.m.).
53% : Tory officials conceded to Playbook that actually EU citizens with settled status would still be able to access benefits (thanks to the obligations under the withdrawal agreement the party brokered back when it was office).
53% : BON CHANCE: French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu unveiled key members of his new government Sunday, including new finance and armed forces ministers, my colleague Clea Caulcutt reports.
52% : Opponents were making the point that the Tories were the party in government that allowed asylum hotel use to spiral ... civil service numbers to swell post-2016 ... and the welfare bill to soar.
47% : The local authority in Kent, controlled by Reform UK, is likely to raise council tax rates next year after its cost-cutting "DOLGE" program struggled to find savings, the FT reports.
47% : Daily Express: Tories pledge to slash £300bn cost of welfare.
45% : Civil liberty groups are outraged over Mahmood's plans to hand police new powers to restrict protests at sites that have seen repeated demonstrations -- as set out on the Guardian's splash.
45% : The Times: Mahmood: Police could get power to ban protests.
44% : But let's examine it a little further: The proposal of restricting welfare to Brits isn't quite as initially sold.
43% : Grandee Grant Shapps told my colleagues Annabelle Dickson and Dan Bloom that without getting a grip on undocumented migration no party will win back trust.
43% : The Times' Oliver Wright has been through David Wolfson's legal advice that recommended the move to find the shadow attorney general reckons quitting would give the EU the grounds to terminate all policing and judicial cooperation with Britain.
42% : U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have both indicated a desire to see the talks progress quickly, with Trump saying Hamas faces "complete obliteration" if it attempts to remain in power in Gaza.

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