The Ministry of Housing’s three-year stint as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities was put to an end by Rayner last month. She declared there’d be “no more gimmicks and slogans” before reverting to the previous name. A Freedom of Information request dispatched from Guido now reveals scrapping levelling up cost a grand total of £8,690, split between branding, signage, and legal seals. Goodnight, sweet prince…

Having been denied a planned-for Deputy Prime Minister’s Office Rayner’s only power base is now MHCLG, inside which sits a conciliatory “Deputy Prime Minister’s Policy and Strategy Unit“. Thanks to the fact it’s a relatively new department with little physical infrastructure the cost won’t reach the dizzying heights of the Foreign Office’s £160,000 rebrand…