Stella Creasy MP throws charity boss out of Parliament for saying 'It happens' about social housing evictions

Labour MP Stella Creasy says she has thrown a charity boss out of Parliament following a row over evicting residents.

Keith Nunn, who is chair of trustees for the Glasspool Trust, reportedly dismissed Ms Creasy’s concerns about the welfare of social housing residents who are facing eviction after their homes were sold to private developers by telling her: “it happens.” the Walthamstow MP says that she was so horrified by his apparent lack of empathy during their meeting at Westminster that she immediately ended the meeting and arranged for police to escort him out of Parliament.

The Glasspool Trust is an organisation which makes individual grants for household goods to people in poverty. It has come under criticism recently after it announced it was selling a number of flats which it owns in Walthamstow to property developers without first informing tenants who had lived there for decades or giving them the chance to purchase the homes. Some tenants have said that they first found out about the deal when they were given eviction notices. Many have expressed concerns that they will no longer be able to live in their communities or to send their children to the same schools, following eviction.

They also allege that The Glasspool Trust has refused to meet with former tenants to explain the reason for or processes behind the sale.

Following the encounter, Ms Creasy explained in a Facebook post: “For the first time in six years I have thrown someone out of parliament- the chair of Glasspools who had the temerity to suggest they have no obligations or concerns for the residents of Butterfields Estate who are being made homeless because of their decision to sell the properties to a private development company.

“Despite Glasspools’ charitable objective being to prevent destitution he just shrugged and said it was ok because they had made money and ‘it happens’. I said Glasspools weren’t a charity, they were a disgrace and needed to take a long hard look at themselves and what they owe those families now facing an uncertain future.

“If they think they can treat the lives of Walthamstow residents as collateral damage in their investment schemes they are mistaken!” She ended the post with the hashtag ‘#angrymp’

Mr Nunn told The Independent: "I have no wish to get involved in a tit for tat argument about who said what during a meeting which I had been led to believe was private."