This Government can find any number of things to do that were not in its manifesto, and in at least one case directly contrary to it, but we can forget about the things that were. Whatever happened to, "We will act where the Conservatives have failed and finally bring the feudal leasehold system to an end"? At best, ground rents are going to be frozen, or capped at £250 per annum.
That would be less than the Conservatives had been in the process of doing before the General Election was called early. Against everyone who was making trouble now, Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove had been set to cap ground rents at £250, but only as the initial measure of the process of phasing them out to peppercorn. The Conservative manifesto promised to follow through with that. The MPs elected on that manifesto should table it as an amendment. By voting to save the ground rent racket, Labour would expose itself as truly the party of people who wanted money for nothing.
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