Keir Starmer posted a video to TikTok on Monday morning. By lunchtime, millions of leaseholders knew their ground rents would never climb above £250 ($310) a year again.
The Prime Minister called it a promise delivered. Ministers called it the end of a 'feudal' system that has trapped homeowners in escalating fees for decades. Housing Secretary Steve Reed went further. He called it 'frankly, a scam', the BBC reported.
