Labour’s new shadow chancellor is against rent control … and guess what, he’s a landlord

‘Labour should not have sought to control rents by regulating landlords, the party’s new shadow chancellor has said.

Chris Leslie, who is a landlord himself, said the party’s policy of limiting the speed of rent increases for tenants had upset people seeking to profit from housing by implying that fast rises were exploitative.

“Part of the issue we always face on the centre-left is the temptation to want to control and run what’s going on in a particular market,” he told the Guardian newspaper.’

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