Angela Rayner’s holiday home highlights the moral vacuum at the heart of Labour ...Middle East

So how does that measure up when she buys herself a holiday home – a £700,000 apartment in Hove? Rayner already owns a home in her Greater Manchester constituency and has the use of a lavish central London home that goes with her role as Deputy Prime Minister.

Like in the case of former housing minister Rushanara Ali, who resigned after details of her throwing out her tenants and raising the rent were exposed by The i Paper, Labour spokespeople have rushed to say “she followed all the rules”. But that only highlights how ineffective the rules are.

Rayner may well be paying the double council tax on her new seaside home that Brighton and Hove Council imposes on second home owners, but this episode shows that for those on six-figure salaries (like the Deputy Prime Minister) who can afford to buy a second home, it acts as no deterrent. As the rich and super-rich swallow up more and more property, so normal people just trying to get some housing security are priced out.

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The confected outrage over Angela Rayner's new property is nothing but snobbery

The Labour Party’s original Keir, its founder Keir Hardie, ran for Parliament with a pledge card promising: “No landlordism… healthy homes, fair rents”. Former Labour leader and four-time prime minister Harold Wilson asserted: “The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.” The party has used as its slogan, “For the many not the few”, under leaders as diverse as Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn (the phrase derives from the line from 19th century socialist Percy Shelley’s poem, The Masque of Anarchy).

So this is not a question of following the rules or abiding by the laws around second homes (though there is a strong case they should be toughened), but of what my Mum tried to drum into me: to “have consideration for others”. In our personal lives as in politics, we think better of people who show decency, act with fairness and behave with consideration, rather than proffer a textbook defence of “there’s no law against it” when confronted over the consequences of their actions.

More problematically, a government that seeks to cut the benefits of pensioners and disabled people while its ministers buy second homes, throw out tenants and then raise the rent, get free holidays, suits and concert tickets from wealthy donors is not a “moral crusade”. It looks quite the opposite.

Like Ali, Rayner should be questioning her own judgement, if not her position. You cannot have credibility on tackling the housing crisis when you contribute to it.

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