By Harry Scoffin

The ding dong over Wes Streeting’s prime ministerial ambitions is not the only spectacular own goal by Number 10.

Last month, the government triumphed when the High Court backed its approach to leasehold reform, a devastating 167-page blow to the rich freeholder lobby trying to sabotage democracy, after having lost the debate with Parliament and in elections. Yet, Number 10 refuses to seize its win.

The freeholders’ target was the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024, passed by the last Conservative government but only made possible by Labour authorisation.

In unleashing lawfare to torpedo this legislation, they probably sought to scare Starmer’s administration into abandoning its manifesto commitment to end leasehold for good via commonhold.

The elite landowners weaponised the Human Rights........

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