The chief executive of the Generation Rent group has made another attack on landlords who ask tenants to vacate properties.

He says the current policy surrounding private rental evictions operate “at a landlord’s whim.”

Acknowledging that Labour and Conservatives had failed to agree on how to progress the Renters Reform Bill before the July 4 General Election, Twomey issued a statement saying: “Abandoning the Renters Reform Bill as parliament dissolves means the government has failed in its promise to renters at the last election to deliver a fairer tenancy system. 

“If it had not been for delays caused by a minority of MPs opposing the Bill, the government could enter the election campaign with a new law to end Section 21 evictions and bring in stronger protections for renters.

“It now falls to the next parliament to start afresh and get it right at the second time of asking. Whoever forms the next government must make rental reform a key part of their agenda. 

“This means proper protections from evictions when we have done nothing wrong, and limits on unaffordable rent rises so we can’t be turfed on to the streets at a landlords’ whim.”

Although the failure to progress the Bill at the end of last week was down to a joint decision by Labour and Conservatives, Twomey’s organisation put the blame firmly on the government.

The Generation Rent campaign says: “The government has had since 2019 to pass this Bill and abolish section 21 no-fault evictions and it has failed to do so. The Bill had been delayed on numerous occasions by a minority of pro-landlord MPs and these delays have ultimately meant that the Bill has not passed.”