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Aug 07, 2025
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Here’s a brilliant idea; one this government seems to have taken to heart: let’s put a fox in charge of henhouse policy.

Today, The i revealed that Labour’s Homelessness Minister, Rushanara Ali, moved on four tenants from her property and promptly relisted it with a £700-a-month rent hike, fr…

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