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New Housing Secretary Steve Reed has a track record of lambasting landlords as a quick trawl through Hansard parliamentary records reveals.

Reed will doubtless be an enthusiastic facilitator of the Renters’ Rights Bill as he has always backed extending tenants’ rights and landlord regulation and has also consistently voted in favour of landlords paying higher stamp duty fees.

Landlords have a new housing secretary after Steve Reed was confirmed in the role following the resignation of Angela Rayner.

The MP for Streatham and Croydon North has been environment secretary for a year but is now to take up the housing role which, given his old department’s role in planning reform, is not a surprise.

Reed also has experience of local government having been leader of Lambeth Council in South London for six years prior to entering parliament during the most recent General Election.