{"id":234313,"date":"2025-10-30T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234313\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:44:08","slug":"new-information-about-rachel-reeves-rental-arrangement-received-by-pm-and-ethics-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234313\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;New information&#8217; about Rachel Reeves&#8217; rental arrangement received by PM and ethics adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did we get here?published at 16:36 GMT<\/p>\n<p>16:36 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rachel Reeves' house in south London.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/98ba6c0a-1ff3-4c14-9413-bb7950f74fdd.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"976\" height=\"650\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Rightmove<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Wednesday, Rachel Reeves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd04d0yxnrvo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">admitted she did not obtain a licence<\/a> needed to rent out her south London home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Labour won the general election in July 2024, Reeves&#8217; family home was put up for rent for \u00a33,200 a month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is in part of Southwark where the council requires private landlords to hold a selective licence, which cost \u00a3945.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a letter to Keir Starmer, the chancellor apologised for her &#8220;inadvertent&#8221; error in not applying for the licence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The issue came to her attention, she says, when the Daily Mail approached her for a comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This was an inadvertent mistake,&#8221; she wrote in her letter. &#8220;As soon as it was brought to my attention, we took immediate action and have applied for the licence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Starmer dismissed calls for an investigation after consulting his independent ethics adviser.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rachel Reeves exits No 11.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/92ded4ab-4d6f-4df4-85ea-1aa2d65c2db7.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How did we get here?published at 16:36 GMT 16:36 GMT Image source, Rightmove On Wednesday, Rachel Reeves admitted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-234313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}