Georgie Frost

Simon, firstly, a bit of history on this one.

What's the Renters' Rights Act?

Where has it come from?

I feel like we've been talking about it for a long time.

In fact, I've been talking about it for a very long time because I think I've bought a house and rented two other homes since this has been discussed with me by estate agents.

And that's the thing, Helen.

I believe I was essentially thrown out of my property how many moons ago over the fears that they wouldn't be able to increase the rent by that much.

And they tried and then no one rented it.

So they had to backtrack and lost months of rental income from me.

So I wasn't too bothered about that.

But what do you think?

In sum, all of these measures added together, because the thing that I hear from landlords is, oh, but what if I have a bad tenant?

It'll be really difficult to get them out, etc.,

But if you are a really bad tenant, you're damaging the property, etc.

That hasn't changed, has it?

And the reality there is it's actually very difficult anyway for landlords to get people out.

The courts are all clogged up, all this sort of thing.

So will this materially, do you think, change that much to the system?

I see that argument that it is their property.

But in my trying to oversimplify this brain, I am a broadcaster.