The Liberal Democrats have issued a challenge to landlord MPs, urging them to disclose whether they have ever utilised a section 21 notice to evict tenants.
The Liberal Democrats have requested the 68 Conservative MPs who are landlords to confirm if they have previously used a section 21 notice to evict tenants, aiming to achieve greater transparency over their possible opposition to the banning of such evictions.
Since the pledge by the Conservatives in 2019 to ban section 21 evictions, almost 50,000 households have been placed at risk of homelessness because of them, as previously disclosed by the Liberal Democrats.
Liberal Democrat Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesperson, Helen Morgan MP, said: “In the midst of a cost-of-living crisis, after years of rents spiralling out of control, this Conservative government has sat on its hands time and again leaving renters without the protections that they deserve.
“It is not right that those thwarting this legislation do not have to make clear why they have such a keen personal interest in stopping it becoming law.
“Any MP who has ever used a section 21 notice needs to make that clear to the House and to the public. It would frankly be insulting to all those affected by the delay of this important piece of legislation to not know the true motivations of why so many Conservative MPs oppose the ban.”
