Sky News has tipped London Labour MP Stella Creasy - a long-standing critic of estate agents and lettings - as a possible leader of the party.
Earlier this year the Walthamstow MP handed out awards to the best - and worst - sales and lettings agents in her constituency, and last year she used her role in the old Labour opposition front bench to criticise the use of “introductory fees” being levied by estate agents in some sales hot spots.
“How can you be acting in the interest of the seller if you are also making money from the buyer? This practice to me looks unfair. The behaviour of estate agents doing this needs to be challenged” she said at the time.
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Not a chance. Good trolling by Sky News!
Cloud cuckoo land, Sky News. I doubt many people outside of the property industry, where she's pretty unpopular, have even heard of her. I think her heart is in the right place - and she's a decent MP by all accounts - but there is no way she'll be the next Labour leader.
Creasy needs to understand estate agency law, ie CPRs and BPRs, which mean property professionals have to be fair. She could thyen look at the 79 Estate Agents Act which says that agents must operate in the best interest of their clients.
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