MINISTER for homelessness Rushanara Ali has resigned after calls for her to quit.

It comes after reports the Labour MP threw out the people living at her east London property and later re-listed it for hundreds more.

According to t he i Paper , she previously rented the four-bedroom townhouse out for £3,300 a month.

But new tenants were forced to fork out an eye-watering £4,000 a month for the home - a stone's throw away from Olympic Park.

The landlord MP, who owns two rental properties, is known for her fight against private renters "being exploited" and championed reform against "unreasonable rent increases".

In fact, Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill will ban landlords who are trying to sell their property from relisting it for higher rent less than six months after tenants move

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