Labour’s housing hypocrisy: councils serve almost 200 households with no-fault eviction notices

Exclusive: firms run by five of the party's councils have used legal loophole to serve section 21 notices

Labour-run councils have used a legal loophole to issue almost 200 households with no-fault eviction notices since the party was elected on a promise to ban the practice, a Guardian investigation has found.

Scrapping these orders, known as section 21 evictions, was one of Keir Starmer's main pledges before last July's general election but, more than a year later, they remain lawful.