Labour minister told four tenants she was selling the property and gave them notice to leave – only to relist it weeks after they left for nearly £700 more a month in rent.
The Conservatives, Reform UK, the SNP and renters’ rights campaigners have all called on the minister to step aside.
Hollinrake said the conduct appeared to be “unethical, not illegal”, adding: “We can’t just say one thing and do another.” The senior MP said her handling of the situation seemed “extremely unfair”.
Caption: Rushanara Ali, Labour MP for Bethnal Green, at protest in east London (Photo by Jenny Matthews/In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)James Cleverly, the Conservatives’ Shadow Housing Secretary, has also called on Ali to step aside, saying the allegations “would be an example of the most extreme hypocrisy and she should not have the job”.
Reform UK also called for Ali to quit as minister. MP Sarah Pochin, the party’s MP for Runcorn and Helsby, said: “At first glance, this appears to be yet another case of staggering hypocrisy from the Labour Party. Her position is surely untenable.”
Tenant Laura Jackson told The i Paper received an email in November giving them four months’ notice to leave. Just weeks after they had left the property, Ms Jackson saw the house had been put back up for rent at nearly £4,000 a month, calling it an “absolute joke”.
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Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill, which will become law next year, will ban landlords who have ended a tenancy in order to sell a property from re-listing it for higher rent until at least six months after tenants have moved out.
Tom Darling, director of the Renters Reform Coalition, described the fact that the “homelessness minister had effectively evicted four people” as “mind-boggling”.
ACORN, along with the Renters’ Reform Coalition, is a major stakeholder for the Government as they attempt to meet their pledge to better protect private renters.
Darling added: “At the very least, the minister must recuse herself from any discussions on [private renting] within government now.”
Former Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, also told The i Paper that the case shows that “rent controls and a massive council housebuilding programme” are “the only way to fix the housing crisis”.
Andrew Boff, a Conservative London assembly member, said: “The hypocrisy is truly stomach-churning. She should consult her conscience and ask herself whether it’s the right job for her. Does she want to be a property developer or does she want to be a minister?”
Asked about the Ali’s actions, Cooper told Sky News: “I don’t know any of the details of this, but I understand she has followed all the rules in this case.”
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government was contacted for comment.
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