I write this from the Evening Standard newsroom, I’d estimate about half populated by “weed-smoking bad people in gangs and crack dens… smashing up the neigbourhood”. It’s flak jackets at dawn around here.
Or so I thought until the current housing minister, Rachel Maclean, assured a Conservative party conference fringe event this week that in fact, plenty of private renters are actually decent, hard-working people.
