It was always going to be difficult for Rushanara Ali to hang on to her ministerial job after The i Paper exposed that she had thrown four tenants out of her property and later relisted it for a higher price.
What she did was totally legal – but it completely jarred with Labour’s flagship Renters’ Rights Bill, which when it comes into effect will stop landlords from relisting a property at a higher rent for at least six months if they end a tenancy intending to sell.
The charge of hypocrisy was unavoidable. Ali’s role in government – as homelessness minister no less – of course made the episode all the more embarrassing for the Government.
Nevertheless, it initially seemed like Number 10 were determined to front it out.Parliament being in recess had offered Ali and Downing Street a bit more breathing space than normal – with the usual routine of ministers being held to account in the Commons in abeyance for the summer.
However, with opposition parties from the Liberal Democrats to Reform UK calling for Ali to resign on Thursday, it was certain that the story was not going to go away.
The Government has been trying to use this week to land the crucial electoral message that it is successfully cracking down on small boat crossings in the Channel. The danger was that the longer questions over Ali’s future were allowed to drag on, that and other stories ministers are keen to tell would have been drowned out.
While her exit will go someway to limiting the damage, ministerial resignations are never a good look for a government, and this is the tenth of Starmer’s short ministry.
As for Ali’s own future, her exchange of letters with the Prime Minister – in which she assured him of her continued support and he praised her “significant impact” in government – suggests that there may be a way back for her into government in time.
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