What Did Rachel Reeves Do? Labour Faces Questions Over Rental House
31st October 2025
What is it about Labour ministers and property? First, the homelessness minister was forced to quit after evicting her tenants so she could put up the rent. Then Angela Rayner, the housing secretary at the time, was effectively sacked by Sir Keir Starmer for avoiding paying stamp duty on a flat in Brighton.
Now it is Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, who is embroiled in controversy after it emerged she had failed to get a licence to rent out her old family home when she entered Downing Street. So what is the latest scandal all about — and how serious is the political fallout for the chancellor?
The Labour Party seems to have the same corruption problem that the Democrats do. I suppose that, when virtue-signaling is standing in for actual virtue. such events are inevitable.