Labour is up for a fight after Shadow Housing Secretary Katie Lam proposed scrapping the Renters’ Rights Act. Labour populism versus sound policy?
The legislation, which gums up the housing market, has pushed rents up for five months in a row and reduced the number of properties available to rent. Predictable result…
Yesterday at Tory Conference Lam said the legislation “has to go.” CCHQ sources later insisted Lam was speaking in broader terms. Should make it a policy announcement pronto…
Bridget Phillipson, who as party chairman is fronting all of Labour’s angry responses to Tory Conference, said “Kemi Badenoch needs to urgently make clear whether it’s now Tory Policy to strip away the landmark protections Labour has delivered for 11 million private renters across England.” Scrapping it would be another way to ease the housing crisis…
Kemi Badenoch at the 1922-ConHome bash last night:
“I did praise [Burnham] for his stamina, it was amazing. All I had to do was sit back and lie there. I didn’t have to do anything at all…”