1 week ago Labour housing chief of borough where Rachel Reeves broke landlord rules resigns after making exactly the same mistake

Michael Situ has quit as the Cabinet Member for Housing at Southwark Council after failing to obtain licences to rent out two properties he owns in Peckham.

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1 week ago London council housing boss resigns over landlord licence blunder that Rachel Reeves also made

Southwark Council’s Cabinet Member for Housing, Michael Situ, admitted he did not obtain the correct permissions to let out his Peckham properties

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1 week ago London council boss cites 'integrity' as he quits over landlord licence blunder that Rachel Reeves also made

Michael Situ blamed his letting agent for the error but said he took ‘full responsibility for allowing this situation to arise’ and wanted to ‘lead with integrity’ by resigning

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2 w. ago Majority of Brits want Rachel Reeves to 'resign' if she hikes income tax, poll claims

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will face a tidal wave of mass dissatisfaction from British voters if she goes back on Labour's promise not to increase taxes for working people

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2 w. ago Majority of Brits want Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves to resign, finds new poll

The Opinium survey found more than half of the public (56 per cent) think the Prime Minister should quit, compared to 26 per cent who want Sir Keir to stay.

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2 w. ago Rachel Reeves insists she won't resign as tax hike rumours rumble on

The chancellor has insisted she won't resign if she raises taxes in the Autumn Budget

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3 w. ago Rachel Reeves asked resignation question on LBC after Budget tax rises hint

In a rare pre-Budget speech earlier today, Chancellor Rachel Reeves refused to stand by Labour's election promise not to hike income tax, VAT, or national insurance

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3 w. ago Reeves says she should have checked rental licence had been obtained as letting agent apologises – UK politics live

No 10 releases redacted emails between Reeves’ husband and letting agentRachel Reeves’ rental error: standards adviser looking at new informationRobert Peston, ITV’s political editor, says he thinks it is a mistake for the Conservatives to be saying Rachel Reeves should have to resign over the rental licence error. He explains why in a post on social media. Here is an extract.Kemi Badenoch’s call for Starmer to sack Reeves, for failing to register her family home when she rented it on moving to Downing Street, lowers the bar quite significantly for sackable offences by ministers. I am not certain all her shadow cabinet colleagues will thank her.The point is that there is a clear distinction between Rayner’s failure to take stamp duty advice and Reeves’s failure to register her home with the council for rent. Continue reading...

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