Angela Rayner challenges Oliver Dowden on housing pressures at PMQs

Labour's lawman person Angela Rayner has utilized her stand-in quality astatine Prime Minister's Questions to onslaught the government's grounds connected housing.

She said homeowners were "sick with worry" implicit mortgages, portion renters' information had been "ripped away".

Ms Rayner besides pressed Deputy PM Oliver Dowden connected erstwhile the authorities would prohibition no-fault evictions.

Mr Dowden told MPs the authorities was lasting down some renters and owe holders.

He added that authorities to springiness renters greater information had been introduced by the government.

Under the legislation, landlords would beryllium banned from evicting tenants with nary justification arsenic portion of a long-promised overhaul of the backstage rental assemblage successful England.

Ms Rayner and Mr Dowden were lasting successful for their respective enactment leaders - Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak - who were some attending a solemnisation of the NHS astatine Westminster Abbey.

The brace volition conscionable again adjacent week arsenic the premier curate volition beryllium attending a Nato Summit successful Lithuania.

Ms Rayner began her questions by asking if the Conservatives could inactive assertion to beryllium the "party of homeownership" fixed families were "sick with interest astir the outgo of the Tory owe bombshell".

A emblematic five-year fixed owe woody presently has an involvement complaint of much than 6% - a crisp emergence compared to this clip past twelvemonth - leaving homeowners who request to remortgage facing increases successful their monthly payments.

The Bank of England has been raising involvement rates successful a bid to little inflation.

Mr Dowden said helium supported the bank's efforts and pointed to an appraisal by the International Monetary Fund, which said the UK was taking "decisive and liable action" to bring down inflation.

In contrast, helium said a Labour authorities would prosecute "endless borrowing" driving up prices.

Ms Rayner said renters would besides endure arsenic landlords walk connected the outgo of higher mortgages to their tenants.

She noted determination had been a 116% summation successful no-fault evictions successful 2023 and asked erstwhile the authorities would "finally deliver" connected its 2019 manifesto committedness to prohibition them.

"The chancellor volition instrumentality each indispensable measures to basal down some owe holders and of people instrumentality indispensable measures for renters," Mr Dowden replied.

Later successful the question session, Labour MP Helen Hayes raised a lodging lawsuit of 1 of her constituents, a archetypal twelvemonth assemblage student, who took his ain beingness successful May.

He had signed a backstage assemblage tenancy statement with his parents arsenic guarantors, but the tenancy included a clause that said the responsibilities of the guarantor are unaffected by the decease of a tenant.

Ms Hayes asked Mr Dowden to usage the Renters Reform Bill to outlaw this signifier and support bereaved families.

The lawman premier curate said the lawsuit sounded "totally abhorrent" and would sermon measures to code the issue.