Activists groups have voiced their anger at Reform UK’s pledge to scrap the Renters Rights Act if it wins power.
Sarah Elliott, chief executive of Shelter, says: “It should come as no surprise that a party whose leader [Nigel Farage] rakes in thousands in rental income every year is fighting tooth and nail to undermine the hard-won rights of England’s 11 million private renters.
“How can any political party claim to stand with working families while plotting to keep them trapped in an unfair system with threadbare rights?
“Scrapping these vital reforms will do nothing but condemn thousands to the hellish conditions they have endured for decades, while giving unscrupulous landlords free rein to turf renters out of their homes for no good reason.”
Clara Collingwood, director at the Renters’ Reform Coalition, comments: “Scrapping the basic protections in this act would be a huge setback for millions of renters, driving up homelessness and making life harder particularly for those on lower incomes.
“Reform should think again.”
Earlier this week Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice told a news conference: “There’s a balance of risk and reward – too many [landlords] are saying ‘enough is enough’.
“The Act is well-intentioned around period of notice to quit but it’s gone way beyond this.
“If you take it too far it will have the opposite effect. Property numbers are reducing – if you reduce supply, the prices go up.”
This article is taken from Landlord Today