Rushanara Ali’s swift and humiliating demise is a traditional instance of paying the value for the politician’s crime of “do as I say, not as I do”.
She was Labour’s minister for homelessness, for goodness’ sake, but she ejected tenants from her near-£1m city home after which hiked the hire.
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A extra egregious case of ministerial double requirements it could be tough to think about. She needed to go and was little question informed by 10 Downing Avenue to go shortly.
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Rushanara Ali reportedly hiked the hire on a property she owns. Pic: PA
‘A heavy coronary heart’ – actually?
MP for the East Finish constituency of Bethnal Inexperienced and Stepney, Ms Ali was the very mannequin of a contemporary Labour minister: A level in PPE from Oxford College.
In her resignation letter to Sir Keir Starmer, she mentioned she is quitting “with a heavy heart”. Actually? She presumably did not have a heavy coronary heart when she ejected her 4 tenants.
She’d beforehand spoken out towards “private renters being exploited” and mentioned her authorities would “empower people to challenge unreasonable rent increases”.
The now former minister was charging her 4 former tenants £3,300 a month. But after they moved out, she charged her new tenants £4,000 – a hire improve of greater than 20%.
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The report in regards to the Labour MP first emerged within the i newspaper. Pic: UK Parliament
A fragile constituency for Labour?
In an space represented by the left-wing firebrand George Galloway from 2005 to 2010, Ms Ali had a majority of below 1,700 on the election final yr.
Ominously for Labour, an impartial candidate was second and the Greens third. Little question Jeremy Corbyn’s new get together may even stand subsequent time.
In her resignation letter to the PM, Ms Ali mentioned persevering with in her ministerial function can be a distraction. Too proper.
A distraction Sir Keir and his more and more unpopular authorities might have finished with out.
