Deputy PM Oliver Dowden ‘confident’ on rental reform

The Deputy Prime Minister has said he is “confident” the Conservative Party will meet its manifesto commitment to ban no-fault evictions, but campaigners questioned whether renters’ hopes for speedy reform were being “artificially raised yet again”.

Oliver Dowden was asked, while standing in for Rishi Sunak at Prime Minister’s Questions, to give a date for when the long-promised ban on Section 21 evictions would come into force.

Labour’s deputy leader accused the of delaying justice for renters and instead having “caved in to vested interests” on the backbenches, with campaigners having previously argued that too many concessions have