Responding to news that the Conservatives have abandoned their pledge to ban no-fault evictions – leaving Bracknell Forest’s over 8,300 renters without the protection they were promised, Labour’s Mary Temperton said,

“It’s now over five years since the Tories promised to scrap Section 21 no-fault evictions. Yet thousands of renters across Bracknell are still without protection, still vulnerable to eviction at any moment. This is a staggering betrayal of our renters.

Families in Bracknell need the protection they were promised – yet Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives seem too weak to stand up to the vested interests blocking reform. That leaves local renters with the threat of having their lives thrown upside down through no-fault evictions.”

Labour’s Renters’ Charter will give renters the certainty and protection they need.  It’s time to turn the page on years of Conservative failure, it’s time for change, it’s time to vote Labour.

Since 2019 over 100 families have faced eviction from rented accommodation in Bracknell.

Sources:

• Mortgage and landlord possession statistics
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics-october-to-december-2023/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics-october-to-december-202
• Counts of dwelling stock by tenure in each local authority, England, 2012 to  – Office for National Statistics, Live tables of dwelling stock, English Housing Survey – Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.