When ministers announce a “generational change” to property laws, they can rely on getting the attention of millions of homeowning voters across the country.
Whether this will turn out to be an accurate description of the scale of this week’s policy shift is unclear. What is evident, though, is that the trend to regulate landlords is showing no signs of abating.
Landlords are set to lose the right to evict tenants at short notice without giving a good reason for doing so, under government plans unveiled on Monday.
