By Harry Scoffin

On Tuesday, looking dapper outside a block of flats for TikTok, the Prime Minister announced a £250 cap on money-for-nothing ground rents.

He expects us to believe this single measure will actually go live at the end of 2028, perilously close to the next general election.

Starmer seems to think a sugar-rush video will convince those of us trapped in leasehold that liberation is just around the corner.

But a good social media game and sickly sweet press coverage are no substitute for detail and delivery from government.

We know his Labour government has already caved to Big Money interests.

Starmer’s ground rent cap is part of what is being billed as a wider crackdown on leasehold, a mysterious, exploitative system controlling over five million households. Leasehold makes England and Wales international pariahs.

Leaseholders, usually flat buyers, are at the mercy of landlords, or freeholders, who have the whip hand and can impose service charges that make their property unmortgageable or........

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