IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
Why Section 21 has got to go
DAVID RENTON argues we must put the burden on landlords to persuade a judge that evictions are reasonable. The government has already agreed to do this — we cannot let it wriggle out of its promise now
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HAS anyone ever succeeded in getting Boris Johnson to keep a promise? This is the uncomfortable situation the left and the working-class movement finds itself in as this lockdown reaches its end.
In summer 2019, the Conservatives (then led by Theresa May) announced that they would repeal Section 21 no-fault evictions, the main way by which private-sector landlords obtain possession from their tenants.
Few tenants’ representatives took that promise altogether seriously. This was an unpopular government, detested above all by the young and by tenants. It felt like a giant bribe to buy off our opposition. But the promise was made.
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