In Britain's broken housing market, does the Renters' Rights Bill go far enough?
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week the renters’ rights bill returns to the House of Commons for its final debate.
But in a country where tenants are spending around 40% of their income on rent, amidst an increasingly inflating housing market - does the bill go far enough?
Anoosh Chakelian is joined by the New Statesman's business editor Will Dunn, and director of the Renters' Reform Coalition Tom Darling.
Read: Landlords are a brake on growth
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| 0:34.4 | This week, the renters rights bill returns to the House of The New Statesman. |
| 0:43.0 | This week, the renters' rights bill returns to the House of Commons for its final debate. |
| 0:47.7 | But in a country where tenants are spending around 40% of their income on rent, |
| 0:52.1 | amidst an increasingly inflating housing market, does the bill go far enough? |
| 0:55.3 | I'm Anusha Kellyan and this is the New Statesman podcast. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm joined today in the studio by our business editor, Will Dun, and also Tom Darling, |
| 1:05.4 | director of the Renters Reform Coalition. Hello, hi, thanks so much for joining us. Just to begin with, I want to go back to Friday's news, the departure of our housing minister, Angela Rainer. |
| 1:13.0 | How do you think her exit affects the politics of this bill? Because it was very much tied to her as an individual, wasn't it? |
| 1:17.5 | Yeah, it was. My hope is that it won't affect the politics of this bill at all. All 400 or so |
| 1:24.9 | Labour MPs stood on a manifesto to abolish no fault evictions. |
| 1:29.5 | And there's no indication that the government will be less interested based on the changes |
| 1:35.3 | at Secretary of State level. |
| 1:36.9 | And it's worth saying that Matthew Pennycook remains the housing minister. |
| 1:41.2 | He has now been serving as housing minister for longer than all but three of the last 16 conservative |
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