{"id":113111,"date":"2025-10-30T23:42:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/113111\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T23:42:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:42:28","slug":"rachel-reeves-letting-agent-apologises-to-chancellor-for-not-applying-for-rental-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/113111\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Reeves: Letting agent apologises to chancellor for not applying for rental licence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Downing Street will still be worried about how this all looks to voterspublished at 19:23 GMT<\/p>\n

19:23 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Jack Fenwick
Political correspondent<\/p>\n

The latest developments – and the apology from the letting agency
\nused by Rachel Reeves and her husband – will likely bring this particular tale
\nto an end.<\/p>\n

While the chancellor acknowledges that she was ultimately
\nresponsible for making sure this licence was acquired, the agency had told her
\nhusband that they’d put in the application on their behalf.<\/p>\n

But it’s yet another day when the government completely lost
\ncontrol of the news agenda.<\/p>\n

Ministers wanted to spend the day discussing their efforts to take
\ndangerous knives off the streets, but that announcement barely registered.<\/p>\n

Downing Street will still be worried this evening about how this
\nall looks to voters.<\/p>\n

They went through one row about a senior cabinet minister’s
\nhousing arrangements just a few weeks ago when Angela Rayner resigned, now
\nthey’ve had to endure another. And this time about a minister already under pressure.<\/p>\n

In her 15 months as chancellor, Rachel Reeves has faced tricky
\nquestions about the reliability of her CV and her acceptance of free concert
\ntickets. <\/p>\n

Plans to cut winter fuel payments and disability benefits – that
\nshe championed – have had to be ditched because of intense backbench pressure.<\/p>\n

And in less than a month she’ll deliver a Budget that’s widely
\nexpected to feature tax rises, despite saying last year that she wouldn’t do
\nit.<\/p>\n

At Kemi Badenoch’s event this morning, it was clear that her party
\nsees the reputation of the Chancellor as an area that they can prod at.<\/p>\n

Expect them to talk a lot about her in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Downing Street will still be worried about how this all looks to voterspublished at 19:23 GMT 19:23 GMT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-113111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}