{"id":169872,"date":"2026-01-20T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-this-labour-party-for-rich-investors-or-hard-working-leaseholders-we-must-make-that-clear-today-angela-rayner\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T20:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:40:48","slug":"is-this-labour-party-for-rich-investors-or-hard-working-leaseholders-we-must-make-that-clear-today-angela-rayner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-this-labour-party-for-rich-investors-or-hard-working-leaseholders-we-must-make-that-clear-today-angela-rayner\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this Labour party for rich investors or hard-working leaseholders? We must make that clear today | Angela Rayner"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA titanic battle is raging to prevent us capping crippling ground rents that families have to pay, often to faceless companies. We must fight and win itRayner urges Starmer to keep promise on leasehold reformAt cabinet last Tuesday the prime minister reportedly made a powerful case for a government that serves the interests of those struggling to get by. He is right. The cost of living emergency is the issue of our time.It is a crisis not months, but years in the making. For more than two decades, living standards have been crushed and there is an increasing sense of a country where people cannot get on, of a system stacked against them.Angela Rayner is the Labour MP for Ashton-under-Lyne and a former deputy prime minister Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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