Colin

[HJB News @HJB_News__]

Live Scenes at 10 Downing Street tonight as Keir Starmer gets the news.

[Leanne @LeanneSpurs]

10 Downing Street tonight.

[Colin @Colin42440977]

@LloydsBank l
Lloyd's app down again

[Colin @Colin42440977]

@RobertFisk Bring back Tom allen

[Colin @Colin42440977]

@Neccccy yes

[Colin @Colin42440977]

@Neccccy yes

[Colin @Colin42440977]

@Mofoman360 yes

[Colin @Colin42440977]

@Mofoman360 yes

[Daily Express @Daily_Express]

🔴 GMB viewers were quick to comment

https://t.co/mkcSThxVoV

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

🚨Rachel Reeves broke law renting out her Dulwich home🚨

Good scoop from @HarriLine

Ask yourself how Labour would have reacted if this had been a Conservative.

She’s raising costs and bureaucracy for landlords and now she does this.

https://t.co/zr2h9EwkdS

[Kevin Edger @KEdge23]

Truly shocking that Labour’s Rachel Reeves has broken the law.

The chancellor doesn’t know basic laws in this country. Yet more Labour incompetence.

At the same time, she’s robbing pensioners, shafting farmers, killing businesses and planning yet more tax rises on us all.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Rachel Reeves was celebrating the renting law being expanded in her constituency, at the same time she was breaking that law with her own house👇

Claiming that she wasn’t aware of these laws is about as credible as her CV.

[CraiginEngland @ghost_wales]

Boris Johnson got sacked for breaking rules.
So Rachel Reeves should get sacked too.
Ignorance of the law isn’t a defence.
She should also know better as she’s the Chancellor of the Exchequer if she can’t manage her own personal finances how can she be trusted to run the economy?
She’s got to go no excuses.

[Talk @TalkTV]

"It's staggering from Rachel in accounts. It's her responsibility here and nobody else’s."

Southwark Landlord David says he has had to pay £900 for the licence to rent both his properties, and there is no excuse for Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

@JuliaHB1

[Talk @TalkTV]

"It's black and white. She needs to go. There doesn't need to be an investigation."

Philip Ingram calls for Chancellor Rachel Reeves to be sacked after she broke housing rules by letting out her family home without a licence.

@JuliaHB1

[WeGotitBack 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸 @NotFarLeftAtAll]

Should Rachel Reeves RESIGN

Yes or No ?

[Colin @Colin42440977]

@NotFarLeftAtAll Yes

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

There is a very serious point about Rachel Reeves being an unlicensed landlord.

It is a Landlord's own responsibility to abide by the rules. The liability rests with a landlord for breaches of landlord law. Agents have other liabilities they are responsible for, but this isn't one.

"Inadvertently" is meaningless. The law was broken.

That she thinks, even for one moment, that the law doesn't apply to her, and that an apology is enough for her to be absolved, when ALL other landlords would be fined, is deeply egregious.

And that's before we remember how she (rightly) lectured other politicians on rule avoidance.

It's tone deaf. It's patronising, it's insulting and above all, it's a gross dereliction of her position as a leader of the government that imposes the laws on us.

There are absolutely no circumstances under which it's acceptable for her to stay in post.

Keir Starmer may end up also having to resign for having tried to pardon and absolve her, a power he does not have.

Any minister, of any party, no matter how successful in their job, has only one option when they break the law that others are punished for. Resign immediately.

Anything else says "it's ok for some people to break the rules and get away with it."

This is arguably more serious than the situation Angela Rayner resigned for. Not paying tax due to an inadvertent error is something many people do all the time, and it's remedied by simply paying the tax.

But entering into a tenancy agreement without a license, when one is required, on penalty of unlimited fines and rent repayment, is a breach of the law.

It's more serious.

If she doesn't resign immediately, and Starmer persists in defending her, this may hasten the fall of this entire government.

The principles at stake here couldn't be more serious.

If she doesn't go, we are no longer living as equals under the law. We're living in tyranny.

[LBC @LBC]

'She didn't know...'
'She's the Chancellor!'

@NickFerrariLBC can't accept the explanation for Rachel Reeves breaking housing rules when she rented out her family home.

[Kevin Edger @KEdge23]

Labour’s Transport Minister - resigned for fraud.

Labour’s anti-corruption Minister - forced out over corruption.

Homeless Minister - out for making tenants homeless.

Angela Rayner? Gone. Caught dodging taxes.

Peter Mandelson - sacked for links to a paedo.

Rachel Reeves?