There we have it, folks. The homelessness minister has resigned – not for failing to fix the housing crisis, but for becoming the poster girl of everything wrong with it.

Rushanara Ali quit last night after it was reported that she evicted tenants from her east London townhouse and then, within weeks, re-listed it for rent for an extra £700 a month.

Yes, the same woman who was in charge of fighting homelessness was allegedly evicting tenants and hiking rents like a dodgy letting agent.

You can’t make this up.

Her letter of resignation to the Prime Minister claimed that her continued presence in the role would be a ‘distraction’ to the work of government. No kidding! That’s the coward’s way out.

But it’s not only about Ali. This fiasco exposes a far greater problem – the number of MPs

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