Labour promises rapid housing action after ‘years of Tory paper promises’

Angela Rayner said Labour ‘will deliver more action on housing in six months than this crumbling Conservative government has managed in six years’. Photograph: Joel Goodman/The Guardian

Labour will deliver more action on housing in the first six months of office than the Conservatives have delivered in the past six years, Angela Rayner has pledged.

Downing Street has confirmed the renters reform bill will be in the king’s speech, allowing it to continue its passage through parliament when the next session opens on Tuesday.