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On his first day taking questions from the despatch box in Parliament as Prime Minister, Andy Burnham promises Barry Gardiner MP, the stalwart of leaseholders and a fan of this campaign, asked that a Commonhold and Leasehold Bill will be coming forward in this parliamentary session.

The Prime Minister promised that a refreshed Bill will be brought to parliament and enacted by this Government as part of his cost of living initiative.

On Tuesday night (September 1st), the serfdom lobbyists will be stressed out strategising how to close this momentum down.

A momentum we never really had with Keir Starmer.

But what happened here was no accident.

The support for Free Leaseholders helped make it happen.

We have been fighting to keep this agenda politically salient as Starmer departed and Burnham took over government.

Last month, Harry Scoffin penned a piece for LBC setting out some quick wins available to a new activist Prime Minister keen to demonstrate he is in touch with public opinion and take on the cost-of-living crisis by going beyond the dud Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill published by Starmer in January and actually freeing leaseholders.