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the Tory government killed a law that would require rental properties to be 'fit for human habitation'.
Which bit is misleading? The law would require properties to be fit for human habitation? (It would, even if ambiguous).
The law already requires properties to be up to defined standards that when added up amount to something like 'fit for human habitation'. The boring core of it seems to be that the government voted down an amendment to the L&T act so that tenants could take civil proceedings if their LA for some reason won't / is dragging it's feet on enforcement.
Or that the Tories killed it?
They killed the amendment, that's for sure. The Law Commission apparently recommended changes like KB was looking for in 1996 - curiously Labour have also killed it by not implementing it, either.
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Which bit is misleading? The law would require properties to be fit for human habitation? (It would, even if ambiguous).
Or that the Tories killed it?
The motivation doesn't change either of those things, it seems like a factual statement to me.