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14/7/25 8:13 pm
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Labour super donor Lord Alli has been slammed by the Conservatives and tenant groups after a young family were evicted from his rented London townhouse – and the rent was then hiked by more than £1,000.
The family of five – paying £4,800 per month – were handed a section 21 notice in June and the five-bedroom Islington property was relisted for £5,850 a month, The i reports.
The property was managed on Alli’s behalf by a managing estate agent, who served the eviction notice two months before the tenancy agreement was due to expire. Sources close to the Labour peer said he was not involved in the decision-making.
Alli’s former tenants told The i they pleaded with the property’s managing agent to negotiate their rent. The father said: “We asked if there was any chance that we could even just stay an extra month so the kids wouldn’t be disrupted in September, and we could get through exams, but it was a no.”
Conservative Party chairman Kevin Hollinrake (pictured right) said Alli’s actions involving his London townhouse were, “yet another example of rank hypocrisy whereby a Labour peer is engaging in the very practises his party’s legislation seeks to prevent”.
Sir James Cleverly, the Tories’ shadow Housing Secretary, added: “This is another example of Labour saying one thing and doing another.”
Ben Twomey, chief executive of Generation Rent, described Alli’s actions as “indefensible” and “outrageous”. Twomey added: “Lord Alli has shown real generosity to his own party as a major donor yet evicting families and using practises that are about to be banned shows that same generosity doesn’t extend to his tenants.”
A spokesperson for Lord Alli said he had never managed this property. “This is his former home where he no longer lives and where one tenant was replaced with another for less money than the former tenant offered and at an amount lower than the market price. Clearly this was not about money.”
Rushanara Ali was forced to resign as the government’s homelessness minister last month after it was revealed she had ejected four tenants from her east London townhouse before relisting the property for £700 a month more.
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