Ruth Alexander
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4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
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And there, once you start a contract, there are limits as to how much your rent can go up by, in a similar vein to what Labour's suggesting.
Now, what happens as a result is that landlords tend to hike the rent between contracts.
So there is a concern that UK market caps might actually push rents up.
Now, in the end, in the UK, the big problem will remain.
And that is that demand outstrips supply, particularly in crowded areas like London and the southeast of England.
You know, everyone agrees that the big solution is to build more homes.
Everyone also agrees that we shouldn't build those homes near to them.
And that is the UK housing affordability problem in a nutshell.
Yes, that's right.
It's spawned loads of headlines.
Pregnancy is six times riskier in the UK than in Belarus, so says several alarmed headlines.
And our fact-checking instincts were immediately aroused at the mention of Belarus.
Because, you know, since when was Belarus the key place we compare ourselves with?
You know, it's got a population seven times smaller than ours.
Some would say it has a dictatorial precedent, and it's certainly got a Soviet Union past.
It's just not immediately obvious why we should be benchmarking the UK against Belarus.
So I delved into the Save the Children report that the statistics are from, and it was soon apparent why this comparison is being made.
It's because Belarus has the best maternal mortality records in the world, at least according to the statistics anyway.
They have one death per 100,000 live births.
The UK has eight.
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