It did not take long for Labour MPs’ phones to start lighting up as they took to their WhatsApp groups to discuss the latest controversy to hit Keir Starmer’s young government.

Within hours of The i Paper’s revelations about homelessness minister Rushanara Ali, talk in Labour circles turned to how it was impossible for her to stay in her post.

The minister had ejected tenants from a property she saidshe planned to sell, before relisting it for a higher rent weeks later.

Ali did not break the law or any ministerial rules – as No10 was quick to assert – but what she did is expected to be outlawed within months under Labour’s new Renters’ Rights Bill.

As MPs pointed out, it is not a good look for the homeless minister to be making tenants homeless. Regardless of letter of the law, vo

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