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The Times reports that the Treasury has drawn up plans to temporarily exempt most homebuyers from paying any stamp duty – the tax people pay when buying some properties. Chancellor Rishi Sunak will reveal plans to lift the threshold at which stamp duty is paid from £125,000 to as much has £500,000. Elsewhere, it pictures the prime minister meeting two nurses who treated him for Covid-19 at an event celebrating the NHS’s 72nd birthday.