The mouldy, ant-infested flats that prove why MPs should never be landlords

In his pitch to the country earlier this year, Keir Starmer committed to cleaning up politics – to end the era of sleaze under the Conservatives that had seen the party judder from scandal to scandal as it floundered around in the dying years of its tenure. A much watered-down version of the previous Labour pledge to ban all second jobs for MPs was announced just weeks into the Starmer government.