Homelessness minister must resign over rent hike, says Tory party chair

Evening Standard

A government homelessness minister evicted four tenants from an east London townhouse before hiking the rent by hundreds of pounds per month, it has been reported.Rushanara Ali, 50, is said to have increased the rent on the four-bedroom property from £3,300 to £4,000 after telling the previous tenants their lease would not be renewed.

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00:00I think it shows staggering hypocrisy.

00:03Rushnair Ali has been somebody who's obviously a government minister in charge of homelessness.

00:08She's spoken out about exploited tenants, about providing more protections for tenants.

00:14You can't say those things then do the opposite in practice as a landlord.

00:18She's got to resign.

00:20Was her conduct illegal or just unethical?

00:23I think as the law stands today, it was unethical, not illegal.

00:28But you can't just say one thing and do another.

00:31And that's what we see time and time again from some Labour ministers saying one thing and doing another.

00:37So you're not bound by the law to follow it to the left of the law.

00:41You can do the right thing by tenants, which most landlords in this country do.

00:46What Rushnair Ali has done is increase the rent deliberately by around 20%, by £700 a month.

00:54So that seemed extremely unfair. The tenant wanted another tenancy and that could have been assessed by an independent tribune.

01:01But no, she decided to kick these tenants out, poor tenants, and put new people in so she could have more money every month.

01:09And that's just not ethical, not right, but also critically, it's hypocritical.

01:14So you're notενical.

01:15So, let's get to the right of this podcast.

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