Rachel Reeves campaigned successfully for the extension of the selective landlord licensing policy in and to her constituency of Leeds West and Pudsey. Yesterday, she said that she had not realised that she had needed such a licence to let out her house in Dulwich. Yet today, she produced emails proving she did know that, and blaming the estate agent for not having applied for it. This evening, the same emails showed that a licence cost £900, which Reeves had not paid.
Under the Renters' Rights Act, she could not summarily evict her tenants, meaning that her resignation or dismissal as Chancellor of the Exchequer would render her homeless. She and her husband, whose position as a very senior civil servant seems a little off, should be made to move in with the former Prince Andrew and the eternal Sarah Ferguson, as the reality television series to end them all.
It would be better as a sitcom with you as the neighbour.
ReplyDeleteSo long as the core four played themselves, and their reactions to the rest of us were scripted minimally, if at all. Broadcast live? Why not?
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