Tories call on Rushanara Ali to resign over rent hike row

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Conservative Party Chairman Kevin Hollinrake calls on Rushanara Ali to resign, accusing the homelessness minister of "staggering hypocrisy", after she hiked the rent on her property by hundreds of pounds allegedly "within weeks" of the previous tenants' contract ending. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I think it shows staggering hypocrisy.

00:02Rishnara Ali has been somebody who was obviously a government minister in charge of homelessness.

00:08She's spoken out about exploited tenants, about providing more protections for tenants.

00:14You can't say those things, then do the opposite in practice as a landlord.

00:18She's got to resign.

00:20Was her conduct illegal or just unethical?

00:23I think as the law stands today, it was unethical, not illegal.

00:27But you can't just say one thing and do another.

00:30And that's what we see time and time again from some Labour ministers, saying one thing and doing another.

00:36So you're not bound by the law to follow it to the left of the law.

00:40If you can do the right thing by tenants, which most landlords in this country do,

00:45what Rishnara Ali has done is she's increased the rent deliberately by around 20%, by £700 a month.

00:53So that seemed extremely unfair. The tenant wanted another tenancy and that could have been assessed by an independent tribune.

01:00But no, she decided to kick these tenants out, four tenants, and put new people in so she could have more money every month.

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