Abolish landlords?
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Is the Green Party Britain’s only viable left wing party? Amid other proposals, their conference voted to abolish landlords at the weekend.
Meanwhile Labour is tweaking the surveying process for house buying, and the Tories say they’ll cut benefits to subsidise first time buyers.
Oli Dugmore is joined by Luke O'Reilly and Megan Kenyon.
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| 0:28.6 | love to use. The New Statesman. From Green Party Conference, we got the motion to effectively abolish landlords. |
| 0:41.9 | It's a grabby headline, Megan. |
| 0:44.1 | How does it work in practice? |
| 0:45.2 | Can we abolish landlords? |
| 0:46.3 | Is such a thing possible? |
| 0:48.1 | Yeah, I don't know. |
| 0:49.4 | It's not 100% clear. |
| 0:52.0 | I did. |
| 0:52.2 | That's so generous. |
| 0:56.4 | Is the Green Party |
| 0:57.6 | Britain's only viable left-wing party? |
| 1:00.1 | Their conference voted to abolish landlords at the weekend. |
| 1:02.5 | Meanwhile, Labor is tweaking |
| 1:03.8 | the surveying process for house buying, and |
| 1:05.8 | the Tories say they'll cut benefits to |
| 1:07.9 | subsidise first-time buyers. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm Olly Doug Moore, and this is the New Statesman podcast, joining me today are my colleagues, Megan Kenyon and Luke O'Reilly. Let's start with the Greens. Megan, you were at their conference. You interviewed their leader. What did you learn? Yeah, I was at the Green Party conference. It was very interesting seeing Green members in the flesh after having sort of followed the party for quite a few months. I mean, |
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