Sir Keir Starmer said the move is not just about keeping Britain safe, "but starving Putin's war machine" of money that helps fund his invasion of Ukraine.
Sir Keir Starmer's letter to Jo Boydell comes in response to a man being jailed for sexually assaulting a guest after staff gave him access to her room.
The 2026 UK Housing Review has found that the UK now has around 1.6 million fewer affordable social homes than in 1981. This has increased competition for private tenancies and driven an "affordability crisis".
Mother Zoe Coutts was convicted of allowing the death of a child, two-year-old Kol Page. She and her then-partner, Scott O'Connor, will be sentenced on 8 May.