Is the government finally going to scrap no-fault evictions for renters?

Charities cautiously welcome long-delayed promise to abolish Section 21, writes Ashley Cowburn

More than one prime minister has promised to abolish Section 21 (PA Wire)

Contained in the Queen’s Speech amid all the pomp and ceremony was a commitment from the government that homelessness campaigners, charities, and renters will be all too familiar with.

Promising a Renters’ Reform Bill, Boris Johnson vowed to eradicate so-called “no-fault evictions”, which allows landlords to evict tenants without having to give a reason, and with just eight weeks’ notice.

The government said ending the practice – already abolished in Scotland – would form part of a “better deal” for England’s 4.4 million private renters, empowering tenants “to challenge poor and unfair rent increase without fear of retaliatory eviction”.