Renters Reform Bill fast becoming landlords’ charter after Gove’s concessions, say campaigners

The government has caved under pressure from landlord Tory MPs to water down a long-promised plan to ban no-fault evictions.

Michael Gove has written to Conservative backbenchers announcing measures to “bolster landlord protections” in the Renters Reform Bill, which was designed to provide more security and better value for tenants.

The long-delayed bill was introduced to parliament last May to deliver on a commitment from the 2019 Tory manifesto to abolish Section 21 so-called “no-fault” evictions.

But a leaked letter on Thursday revealed Mr Gove had made a series of which he trumpeted as “having the support of main landlord groups”.