Not all of England's 11 million private renters are “weed-smoking people in gangs...smashing up the neighbourhood,” housing minister Rachel Maclean reassured attendees at a Conservative Party conference talk today.
Speaking to an audience of majority landlords, Maclean felt the need to remind them that renters can be Tory voters too, and that some are even “decent people”.
The talk, entitled ‘Going Private: reforming the private rented sector’, featured Maclean, David Simmonds MP, chair of the APPG on Housing and Planning, chief executive of the National Residential Landlord (NRLA) Ben Beadle, as well as representatives from GB News, the New Statesman, and conservative think tank Bright Blue.
