Clive Betts: Committee Report and Management Companies

clive betts: Ministers have committed to reforming the practice of buying and selling freeholds after it was criticised by a housing, communities and local government select committee report in March, according to The Guardian. Reacting to claims about Greene's former role, Clive Betts, the chair of the committee, said Ordinary people are being ripped off by greedy management companies who exploit them to make an inflated profit. Mike Greene, expected to become the fledgling party's first MP on Thursday, was for two years an alleged office holder in E&J Ground Rents No4 llp a firm which bought and sold the rights to charge ground rent across the UK. Greene's former business partner in the firm, James Tuttiett, has built one of the biggest property empires in the UK made up of controversial freeholds, allowing him to charge homeowners for the land their house is built on. It shows the Brexit party's true colours as a Thatcherite party with no concern for the people of this country. Greene, 54, came to national prominence on Channel 4's The Secret Millionaire in 2011. Nigel Farage's party is the bookmaker's favourite to take Peterborough, a seat made vacant after the recall of the former Labour whip Fiona Onasanya for lying about a speeding ticket. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.