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Rushanara Ali's swift and humiliating demise is simply a classical illustration of paying the terms for the politician's transgression of "do arsenic I say, not arsenic I do".
She was Labour's curate for homelessness, for goodness' sake, yet she ejected tenants from her near-£1m municipality location and past hiked the rent.
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A much egregious lawsuit of ministerial treble standards it would beryllium hard to imagine. She had to go and was nary uncertainty told by 10 Downing Street to spell quickly.
'A dense heart' - really?
MP for the East End constituency of Bethnal Green and Stepney, Ms Ali was the precise exemplary of a modern Labour minister: A grade successful PPE from Oxford University.
In her resignation missive to Sir Keir Starmer, she said she is quitting "with a dense heart". Really? She presumably didn't person a dense bosom erstwhile she ejected her 4 tenants.
She'd antecedently spoken retired against "private renters being exploited" and said her authorities would "empower radical to situation unreasonable rent increases".
The present erstwhile curate was charging her 4 erstwhile tenants £3,300 a month. Yet aft they moved out, she charged her caller tenants £4,000 - a rent summation of much than 20%.
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In an country represented by the left-wing firebrand George Galloway from 2005 to 2010, Ms Ali had a bulk of nether 1,700 astatine the predetermination past year.
Ominously for Labour, an autarkic campaigner was 2nd and the Greens third. No uncertainty Jeremy Corbyn's caller enactment volition besides basal adjacent time.
In her resignation missive to the PM, Ms Ali said continuing successful her ministerial relation would beryllium a distraction. Too right.
A distraction Sir Keir and his progressively unpopular authorities could person done without.
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