Trevor Phillips Skewers Labour For Treatment Of Rachel Reeves Amid Rental Row

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6907321f230000b01ebe2111.jpeg?cache=yTmcbEpSqS&ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="John Healey, Rachel Reeves and Trevor Phillips" data-caption="John Healey, Rachel Reeves and Trevor Phillips" data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="Sky News/AP" />John Healey, Rachel Reeves and Trevor Phillips</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p><a href="news/trevor-phillips" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Trevor Phillips</a> called out a senior Labour minister today over the way <a href="news/rachel-reeves" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rachel Reeves </a>has been treated after breaking property law.</p><p>The chancellor has been in the spotlight this week after it was revealed she was renting<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/why-the-rachel-reeves-property-saga-is-getting-messy-for-pm_uk_6903781ee4b017cd270f2adf"> out her family home without the correct licence.</a></p><p>She <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/why-the-rachel-reeves-property-saga-is-getting-messy-for-pm_uk_6903781ee4b017cd270f2adf">claimed</a> it was an “inadvertent” mistake as she had not been aware of the necessary requirements.</p><p>Within 24 hours, new emails showed her husband had actually been aware – but their estate agents had promised to obtain the correct licence on their clients’ behalf, and then failed to do so.</p><p>This was still a breach of property law, but <a href="news/keir-starmer" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Keir Starmer</a> and his independent adviser on ministerial standards said Reeves’ apology and new attempts to get a licence were “sufficient” as resolutions.<