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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Angela Rayner

Is this Labour party for rich investors or hard-working leaseholders? We must make that clear today

leasehold protesters in London in 2021
‘Our draft commonhold and leasehold reform bill can move us on from the feudal leasehold system – but not without meaningful action to tackle ground rents.’ Photograph: Stephen Chung/Alamy

At cabinet last Tuesday the prime minister reportedly made a powerful case for a government that serves the interests of those struggling to get by. He is right. The cost of living emergency is the issue of our time.

It is a crisis not months, but years in the making. For more than two decades, living standards have been crushed and there is an increasing sense of a country where people cannot get on, of a system stacked against them.

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