Government housing benefit climbdown won't help private renters | Dawn Foster

A welcome U-turn on the housing benefit cap for supported housing still leaves private tenants to face crippling rents and being turfed out on the streets Being a Conservative MP must be one of the most thankless, if well-remunerated, jobs currently going in Britain. You spend years working on policy, hammer it into the manifesto, sometimes force it through parliament, then, inevitably, junk it in a cataclysmically embarrassing U-turn.Related: Theresa May performs major U-turn on plans to cap ho