By Liz Hamson2021-06-18T00:00:00+01:00
W e all knew it was coming, but that did not make the government’s announcement on Monday that so-called Freedom Day would be delayed until 19 July any easier to stomach, not least because of the likely ramifications.
By Tuesday, we were hearing mutterings of an imminent government announcement on how it planned to tackle the £6bn in rent arears . Come Wednesday, the can had been kicked down the road yet again and the commercial evictions moratorium extended, but not until 19 July, a decision that would have had some logic to it, or even by a few months, which would have had less logic but been potentially manageable for landlords.