John Healey, Rachel Reeves and Trevor Phillips

Trevor Phillips called out a senior Labour minister today over the way Rachel Reeves has been treated after breaking property law.

The chancellor has been in the spotlight this week after it was revealed she was renting out her family home without the correct licence.

She claimed it was an “inadvertent” mistake as she had not been aware of the necessary requirements.

Within 24 hours, new emails showed her husband had actually been aware – but their estate agents had promised to obtain the correct licence on their clients’ behalf, and then failed to do so.

This was still a breach of property law, but Keir Starmer and his independent adviser on ministerial standards said Reeves’ apology and new attempts to get a licence were “sufficient” as........

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