{"id":634338,"date":"2026-10-02T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/634338\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:42:14","slug":"polanski-calls-for-three-year-cap-on-private-rent-rises-as-he-says-greens-keep-labour-in-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/634338\/","title":{"rendered":"Polanski calls for three-year cap on private rent rises as he says Greens keep Labour in check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/core\/website\/assets\/static\/news\/incident-types\/light-mode\/analysis.77b314ef10.svg\" alt=\"Analysis\" height=\"2.5rem\" width=\"9.8125rem\" draggable=\"false\" class=\"ssrcss-h608ny-ContributorImageComponent e2hr5uu0\"\/>Polanski says Labour failed to take on powerful interestspublished at 14:24 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:24 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/61dafb72-4c6b-41f2-b294-4d388effe420.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Jack Fenwick<br \/>Political correspondent, reporting from Brighton<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Polanski stands at a podium and speaks\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/02dd3a8a-ab03-43e5-91f8-3d18922eeeae.jpg.webp\"  width=\"998\" height=\"561\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zack Polanski has faced something of a conundrum since Andy Burnham entered Number 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Green poll rating was already on a bit of a slide since reaching a high a few months ago \u2013 and that trend has continued as the new prime minister has attempted to gain back some voters on the left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Polanski has been careful not to be too critical of Burnham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He&#8217;s often said the prime minister has the right diagnosis for the UK&#8217;s problems, but not necessarily the right prescription.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he has gone further than that today, particularly when discussing rent controls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Polanski said that by not introducing such a policy, the government had failed to &#8220;take on the powerful vested interests of developers and big landlords&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He went on to say: &#8220;Slogans without action, half-measure legislation, outdated economic management &#8211; it&#8217;s just not good enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It felt like the most critical he\u2019s been of Burnham since he entered office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polanski says Labour failed to take on powerful interestspublished at 14:24 BST 14:24 BST Jack FenwickPolitical correspondent, reporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-634338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}