Rachel Reeves has sparked a fiery clash on GB News as Britain’s Newsroom hosts Alex Armstrong and Miriam Cates disagreed on the Chancellor’s rental scandal.

As Alex declared he “totally understands” why GB News viewers are “obviously incensed” about the mishap, Miriam quickly hit back at the remark, saying it is “ridiculous”.

Hitting out at the Chancellor, Alex stated: “A week ago, she wrote a tweet where she was praising licensing laws in Leeds, talking about how this is going to stop bad landlords and all this stuff.

“So if she knew about this very specific part of Leeds, how did she not know, as her landlord herself, about the very specific part of that constituency?”

Miriam responded: “Because Alex, hardly anywhere in the country has this particular licensing law, and she obviously didn’t know last week that the particular borough in London, in fact, not even the whole borough, not even the whole ward, a small part of this ward where her house happens to be does have these licences.

“And as we now know, the estate agent knew that full well and promised to purchase the licence for her. But her husband was dealing with it, not her. So why would she know?”

Taking aim at politicians for “not knowing the law”, Alex argued: “Well, the onus is on them, that is the law. It is on them.”

Interjecting Alex, Miriam made clear: “Yes and they will pay any fines that are now due, of course. And they rightly should.”

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Becoming increasingly frustrated with the debate, Miriam told Alex: “This idea that our politicians should be perfect, know every single law of the land in statute is bizarre. Nobody knows that.

“Why would you stand for election if you’re expected to know every single law of the land? That’s just ridiculous.”

Disagreeing with Miriam, Alex immediately hit back: “But I also think if you’re going to sit and praise a law, praise something and say, we need to do more of this, but you have broken that law, she should have known.

“If you’re going to make a comment about policy and you are a landlord, just double check.”

Miriam stood firm on her argument, stating: “But she didn’t know, and they did check!”

Alex interjected, jibing: “Well, they didn’t check their emails, did they?”

Miriam concluded: “They did check their emails, but the estate agent said ‘I will purchase the certificate’, and they never did. They’ve admitted their mistake, move on. That’s how life works.”

Sir Keir has opted not to sanction Ms Reeves over the scandal, saying she “acted in good faith”.

A letter to the Chancellor read: “It is clearly regrettable that the information in this correspondence was not shared with me when you wrote to me last night, but I fully accept that you were not aware, at that stage, of these emails.

“I accept that you were acting in good faith when you wrote to me last night.”