John Whittingdale

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  • Jun.06.2018: Britons living in EU tell MPs they are forgotten victims of Brexit. Campaigners say 1.2m people are being treated like hostages during negotiations. Representatives of 4 campaign groups representing the estimated 1.2m Britons who are settled in other EU countries called on Theresa May to deliver on her promise that they could continue to live as they had done before. They told MPs that rights were being lost because of Brexit and the govt could easily do something about it. Conservative MP John Whittingdale questioned why they should have freedom of movement post-Brexit when Britons living in Britain would not. He was told it was because the 1.2m invoked European rights in moving to another EU country while Britons at home did not. Richard Graham, Tory MP for Gloucester, supported her arguments. Fiona Godfrey, chair of British Immigrants Living in Luxembourg, Jane Golding, chair of the umbrella campaign group British in Europe, Barbara Drozdowicz, who runs the East European Resource Centre. Lisa O'Carroll, The Guardiann.
  • Jan.12.2016: Tories vote down law requiring landlords make their homes fit for human habitation. Labour MP Teresa Pearce's amendment to the Housing and Planning Bill 2016, which would place a duty on landlords to ensure that their properties are fit for habitation when let and remain fit during the course of the tenancy, was defeated by 312 votes to 219. Marcus Jones said the govt believed that homes should be fit for human habitation, but did not want to pass a new law that would explicitly require it. Other ministers claimed the proposal would impose "unnecessary regulation" on landlords, and that it would push up rents. John Whittingdale, himself a landlord, was one of those who voted "No". Jon Stone, The Independent.