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Jeremy Hunt & Suella Braverman are among five cabinet ministers & 68 Tory MPs - nearly one in five - who are currently landlords, bringing in at least £10,000 a year renting out housing during the #CostOfLivingCrisis.

theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

The @38degrees study counted 87 MP landlords – more than 13% of the Commons – of whom 53 claimed rental income from one home and 34 from two or more properties.

By contrast, only 4% of the UK population declare income from renting property.

On the Labour frontbench, David Lammy, Emily Thornberry and Lucy Powell are all landlords.

Overall, MPs could be earning as much as £2.2 MILLION a year from renting out homes.

In 2019, the then PM Theresa May, promised to scrap no-fault evictions, & Boris Johnson pledged “a better deal for renters”, including the eviction ban. Nearly 47,000 households have since been threatened with section 21 no-fault eviction notices, homelessness figures show.

Conditions for private renters are becoming increasingly relevant at the ballot box.

The 2021 census showed the number of households renting had more than doubled in the last two decades in England and Wales, to over 5 MILLION - one in five of the total.

In England, there are currently more than 7,000 no-fault evictions a year. In 2021, nearly 800,000 private rented homes in England failed to meet the government’s “decent homes standard”.

gov.uk/government/sta…