Rushanara Ali's swift and humiliating demise is a classic example of paying the price for the politician's crime of "do as I say, not as I do".

She was Labour's minister for homelessness, for goodness' sake, yet she ejected tenants from her near-£1m town house and then hiked the rent.

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A more egregious case of ministerial double standards it would be difficult to imagine. She had to go and was no doubt told by 10 Downing Street to go quickly.

Image: Rushanara Ali reportedly hiked the rent on a property she owns. Pic: PA

'A heavy heart' - really?

MP for the East End constituency of Bethnal Green and Stepney, Ms Ali was the very model of a modern Labour minister: A degree in PPE from Oxford University.

In her resignation letter

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