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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

Almost a third of Tory MPs trying to weaken tenant protection bill are landlords

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg is among the landlord MPs who have backed amendments to the bill. Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/Rex/Shutterstock

Almost a third of the MPs attempting to water down or delay new laws to better protect England’s 11 million private renters are landlords, analysis has revealed.

MPs including Bob Blackman, Nick Fletcher, Marco Longhi and Geoffrey Clifton-Brown are pressing for changes to the long-awaited renters’ reform bill, which will ban no-fault evictions. They want to make it easier for landlords to throw out tenants for antisocial behaviour instead.

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