Full exchange: Rayner clashes with Dowden over housing policy during heated PMQs exchange

Well, we didn't go to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, thank you, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can I first share with the Deputy Prime Minister the comments about our Jewish community and a happy Passover and also begin by acknowledging the loss of David Marand? and Baroness Massi, who played a historic role, made historic contributions to the politics of this Parliament and to life in general and ALS. I send my deepest condolences on today's news to the family of Lord Frankfield, who is a good friend and colleague of mine, and was an anti-poverty campaigner. and an advocate for your constituents, Mr.

President, I know the opposing party is desperate to talk about my living conditions, but the public, the public, the public wants to know what this government is going to do about theirs. EX yes, Natalie from Brighton has received two no-fault eviction notices in 18 months joined almost a million families at risk of homelessness because her party did not ban this cruel practice now, instead of obsession with me house, when will he control himself and show the same obsession to finish without guilt? evictions well, for starters, it is a pleasure to have another

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with the honorable lady in this house, our fifth in 12 months, any more of these and she will claim you as her main resident in the matter of no evictions because she may have escaped the attention of the right lady, but we will vote on exactly that issue later today the conservative government is taking action Mr.

Speaker, you clearly thought you could work, spend all week obsessing about my

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conditions and didn't even bother to read about the his own government's bill this afternoon, the reality is that he bowed to vested interests on his backbenches and delayed justice for people like Natalie this week. The Housing Minister said there is no firm date for banning no-fault evictions. The Housing Secretary says now. It won't happen before the election, so if he can give us a date, can he name it now? Minutes. I can name the date for the law lady today. It is today that this House will vote on this and I am sure that in accordance with our Manifesto, we will deliver on that commitment Angela, Mr Speaker, you clearly have not been reviewing your own Government bills, but let me refer to another failure of the Conservatives in

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matter.

Leases are a scam and a scam but the government proposals on the old ban on new tenancies apply only to houses, most tenancies are for flats, what's the point of banning new tenancies if it won't apply back to the floors? The right lady is talking about legislation introduced by this government that the totally opposite party failed to introduce during their entire mandate and it is no surprise because it is this government that has reduced social housing waiting lists by almost half a million and has delivered more affordable housing in the last year and in the last 12 years than workers delivered when they were in office, but of course all of this can only be paid for by making sure we have a strong economy and I'll tell you their

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: repealing each and every one of the conservative union laws in the first 100 days would open the door to French-style wildcat strikes that destroy the reforms that made this country great and we all know, Mr.

President, that the only reform that the honorable lady would not abolish Margaret Thatcher's right to buy her Council house, thanks for Mr Rainer. President, I expected better from him today, he seems to be a little exhausted, maybe it's the Badman's 3:00 am calls that have been keeping him up at night, but he too, Mr. President, also talks about strikes In the unions we have had more strikes under this government's W than at any other time and once again he has not read his own bill his ban on retention of leas will not apply to the majority of people it is like banning non-doms but exempt Tory ministers and talk of affordable housing, families are stuck in temporary accommodation and on waiting lists, and in the West Midlands, May has used her multi-million pound housing budget to build just 46 homes in 8 years, that is, almost as many as those of the Chancellor. property portfolio, but the British people know that his party will not build the houses this country needs, so when will they get the chance to vote for a government that will?

I'm surprised the lady on the right raises the West Midlands, when, when. Labor control Birmingham has practically bankrupted the council by increasing council taxes by 21% whilst, in the meantime, and I'm sure he would like this, continue to hand over 1.8 million to the unions, in contrast to Andy Street, our brilliant mayor of The Wider West. M has lied about an investment of 6.1 billion to improve transport, so there is the contrast between the conservative party and the labor party, the usual political opportunism of her for not asking about the issues that really matter if you want more containers if you want more bin collections, more potholes filled lower debt and council tax vote conservative because whether it's Ben hon in Teas Valley or Andy Street in the West Midlands, it's only Conservative mayors who deliver more for Less well Mr Speaker, it's quite telling let him think that housing is not a problem for the British people because I think it really is and the people in Glass Houses are throwing stones because in Birmingham and across the country councils are facing black holes because of their government program and he would do it.

He also warned the Deputy First Minister that Conservative councils have also faced 114 notices and Birmingham Council has had more than £1 billion taken from its budget to help some of the poorest people. More than 16,000 families face losing their homes after the party's mini-budget. Loudspeaker and mortgage bills remain sore as the former prime minister parades around the world in a Twisted Victory lap promoting a new book that says the mini-budget was her proudest moment, so how can she apologize to families who lose their home, will it? What the Prime Minister has done since taking over as Chancellor is to restore stability to our economy with inflation reduced to 3% and as a result of that, in an increasingly dangerous world, the Prime Minister was able to announce his plan to the biggest strengthening of defense spending in a generation, but it should come as no surprise that the opposite party refused to say whether they support it or not because it comes from the right honorable lady who voted to scrap Trident and install in Downing Street someone she wanted to convert the Army into a Peace Corps, there you have it Mr.

Speaker, we all want to see 2.5%, the difference is we haven't reduced the Army to its smallest size since Napoleon and Mr. Speaker, never mind some deep and secret state. Never mind some deep, secret state, the problem is the state of the Conservative Party. They are in a deep state of sin after 14 years, they have failed the tenants, they have failed the tenants and they have failed the mortgage holders, but Mr Speaker, I read with interest that the right Honorable gentleman has been urging his neighbor at number 10 to call elections because he worries they could be wiped out.

Have you finally realized that when you stabbed Boris Johnson in the back to push your frontrunner into number 10 you were abandoning your biggest electoral winner for a p-sized loser prime minister, well, I think I think I think the whole thing the house will have heard despite everything Blaster from the lady across the street not a single word about whether she would really support our plans to invest in our Armed Forces there are no plans in It's a dangerous world and, of course, as always, the leader Attached always seeks to attack the failures of others, but never assume responsibility for their own.

She once said that you shouldn't wait for the police to knock on your door if you did it then. You shouldn't be doing your job, the honorable lady of the land should forget your tax advice and follow your own advice, thank you, Mr. President, and level up for my friend, uh, before in the cor valley, he is absolutely on fire. 1.965 million for hospital reconfiguration 150 million for flood defenses no fewer than 11 schools are being remodeled or rebuilt as we speak some 45 million for the regeneration of three town centers and Ellen is getting a new oh