Labour MPs and renters’ rights campaigners have reacted with fury after Keir Starmer watered down his flagship plan to force landlords to provide decent homes.
The government has announced that decent homes standards – that require landlords in England to provide homes in a reasonable state of repair and be free of damp and mould – will now not be enforced until 2035, in what Labour MPs are describing as a “betrayal” of its manifesto promise.
