{"id":325256,"date":"2025-08-07T13:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325256\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:11:10","slug":"uk-homelessness-minister-faces-calls-to-resign-over-tenant-eviction-claims-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325256\/","title":{"rendered":"UK homelessness minister faces calls to resign over tenant eviction claims | Labour"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK homelessness minister, Rushanara Ali, is facing calls to resign after claims she evicted tenants from her east London<\/a> property before increasing the rent by almost \u00a3700 a month.<\/p>\n

Four tenants who rented a four-bedroom house owned byAli were given four months\u2019 notice in an email last November and told their lease would not be renewed because the property was due to be sold, according to the i Paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the tenants left the property, which they had rented for \u00a33,300, they said it was seen relisted at nearly \u00a34,000 a month, the paper said. It reported that the property was relisted for rent after no buyer was found.<\/p>\n

The renters\u2019 rights bill<\/a>, which is due to come into force next year, will ban landlords<\/a> who have ended a tenancy in order to sell a property from relisting it for a higher rent.<\/p>\n

Ali has been widely criticised for apparent hypocrisy. She has spoken out against private renters being exploited and said the Labour<\/a> government would \u201cempower people to challenge unreasonable rent increases\u201d.<\/p>\n

Labour, Conservative and SNP politicians have called for her to resign. The shadow housing secretary, James Cleverly, said Ali should consider her position. He told the i-Paper the allegations \u201cwould be an example of the most extreme hypocrisy and she should not have the job as homelessness minister\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kevin Hollinrake, the Conservative party chair, said: \u201cI think it shows staggering hypocrisy. Rushanara Ali has been somebody who\u2019s obviously a government minister in charge of homelessness. She\u2019s spoken out about exploiting tenants, about providing more protections to tenants.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t say those things, then do the opposite in practice, as a landlord. She\u2019s got to resign.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peter Wishart, the SNP\u2019s deputy leader at Westminster, said: \u201cOnce this shameful story broke, Labour\u2019s homelessness minister should have immediately resigned. The fact that she still hasn\u2019t means this is now a direct test of Keir Starmer \u2013 he needs to sack her immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jess Barnard, a former chair of Young Labour and a member of Labour\u2019s NEC, said<\/a>: \u201cSeems an appropriate time to reiterate MPs should not be landlords, and landlords should not be Labour MPs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin Abrams, a Labour councillor in Lambeth, posted<\/a>: \u201cYou couldn\u2019t make this up! Rushanara Ali should resign #LandlordsOutOfLabour.\u201d<\/p>\n

The house, near Ali\u2019s Bethnal Green and Stepney constituency, is listed for sale at \u00a3894,995. The property was reportedly put up for sale last November, and the price was reduced in February.<\/p>\n

A source close to Ali told the BBC<\/a> that the tenancy had a fixed-term contract and that the house had been put on the market while the tenants were still there.<\/p>\n

They said the tenants had been told they could stay on a rolling basis while the house was on the market, but they had chosen to leave. The house was relisted for rental only because it had not sold.<\/p>\n

Ali\u2019s spokesperson said: \u201cRushanara takes her responsibilities seriously and complied with all relevant legal requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK homelessness minister, Rushanara Ali, is facing calls to resign after claims she evicted tenants from her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-325256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114987655724973130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}