Rachel Reeves has hinted at her plans for a one-year rent freeze in the Commons:
“This Government have already taken action to reduce the cost of living and to bear down on inflation with the changes around energy prices, around fuel duty, prescription charges and rail fares, and I will do everything in my power and use every lever we have to bear down on the cost of living, including for people in the private rented sector.”
No10 said in a briefing to journalists today: “We have no plans to implement this.” And Bridget Phillipson said a rent freeze “is not the approach we are taking”…
That means soft-left Labour MPs will find Reeves has given them very little to chew on. If you don’t deny the claims then the market will go bananas…
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”