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Hello and welcome to the Safely Ridge on Sunday podcast.

This week I talked to housing minister Gavin Barwell about the government's plans to make renting more affordable, and I chatted to Britain's longest-serving female MP, Harriet Harmon.

I also brought together two people from opposite ends of the debate, Conservative Ian Duncan Smith and Labour's Stella Creasy, to talk all things Brexit.

On Tuesday, the government will publish plans designed to improve choice and quality in the rental market.

They hope to make renting more affordable and also to allow councils to plan for the long term.

I went to Croydon this week where people certainly felt action needed to be taken.

Our house isn't even very good, to be honest.

You know, it's damp, it's not very good conditions, and we're paying 1,400 a month.

That's extraordinary.

It's a lot of money, yeah.

Yeah, and so perhaps that's something you think the government should be looking at as well?

Definitely, yeah, I think so. If they can help out younger people, I think that's great because it's such a competitive market out there when people come out of university,

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