Downing Street Refuses To Say If Rachel Reeves Broke The Ministerial Code Over Renting Her Home Out

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/69037004230000923fbe1e3e.jpeg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves" data-caption="Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves" data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="via Associated Press" />Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p><a href="news/keir-starmer" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Keir Starmer’s </a>spokesperson repeatedly refused to say if<a href="news/rachel-reeves" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Rachel Reeves</a> had broken the ministerial code after <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reeves-admits-to-unlawfully-renting-out-home-without-correct-licence_uk_69031185e4b017cd270ef337">she admitted to breaking property rules.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15239797/Rachel-Reeves-broke-law-renting-family-home-Downing-Street.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Following reporting from the Daily Mail,</a> the chancellor wrote to the prime minister on Wednesday night confirming she had failed to obtain a “selective” rental licence for her family home in London.</p><p>She apologised for the “inadvertent error”, and claimed she had immediately applied for a licence – actions which Starmer declared were a “sufficient resolution” to such errors, according to the Ministerial Code.</p><p>Speaking just a month after his deputy prime minister <a href="news/angela-rayner" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Angela Rayner </a>had to <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/angela-rayner-quits-cabinet-after-report-into-stamp-duty-row_uk_68b99f1ee4b0e20f601ad86f"