Greens call for ’emergency brake’ three-year rent cap

That’s 1 less vote they will receive. Maybe the Green party need to understand what happens in the real world of being a LANDLORD. The hours many work to provide accommodation that covers the running costs and constant changes to the law and the financial risks good landlords face. we are not charities and we pay taxes on the profit.

Whether landlords are super-earners or just getting by with a single property supplementing their pension is irrelevant. The law should be no respecter of persons. Thankfully the Greens are never going to win power to implement this nonsense. Even Labour realise what a disastrous policy this would be.
If the Greens want rents to be more affordable, how about campaigning to reverse some of the added costs, burdens and risks imposed on landlords in the past 10 years? It is the very policies the Greens support that lead to supply shrinking and rents rising.

Their comparison is entirely fraudulent. Company profits are calculated AFTER staff wages, very few landlords can pay themselves a wage to offset the income so in effect our income should be compared to turnover rather than profit.

The Greens have got less brainpower for helping tenants than Ed Miliband has for helping people’s energy costs. As a footnote I’m sure that if Ed Miliband was to have his brain dissected you would find less functional brain cells than I have thumbs.

“Millward attended King Henry VIII School, a private school in Coventry. She then graduated with a bachelor’s degree in theology from the University of Oxford in 1999 before completing a master’s programme in gender and development from the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town in 2001.”
So a typical champagne socialist; privileged upbringing and looking at her employment history, has never done a proper job. No doubt a healthy bank balance due to her background, but happy to finger wag at those of us at the coal face.

Reply to the comment left by Grumpy Doug at 02/10/2026 – 13:59
She is also a landlord

Maybe we should make it mandatory that MPs and Councillors have an intelligence test before being allowed to stand? The Greens have no clue about the economic damage these policies cause and yesterday you had LibDem London Assembly member demand that Builders stop using their transit vans in favour of these E-cargo bikes. When confronted by a Developer and asked how do I get a ladder and a concrete mixer on one her response was people get fridges in them…..
That is the mentality of these people and why they should be forced to have at the very least and IQ test, but preferably shown to have run a commercial business beyond knitting yoghurt at a profit with employees.

So Rachel Millward thinks landlords are “super earners” does she?

So how come she lives in a £1.6 million house, and I (a landlord) live in a £250k house?

If all the costs Landlords have to pay are also capped then fair enough. But as long as they keep rising then so will rents! I don’t raise rents to make more income – I raise it to try to keep from drowning under the relentless upward pressure of my costs.
The fairest way to keep rent rises predictable is the old fashioned tenancy clause that linked it annually to inflation rates. This was an effective and I think fair-ish mechanism.
Which these idiotic new laws have forbidden!

Utter tosh. try being a landlord for a few years, then come back & tell me rent caps are a good idea. Another politician that’s headline grabbing without any substance to back it up.

The moment I see a law about rent caps coming in will be the moment that all my tenants get legally evicted & the whole portfolio goes up for sale. The solution is then to move my capital elsewhere & leave the politicians to deal with the increase in homelessness they will have caused.

Short sighted views. Should have gone to….