No
It’s a common misconception that tenants can withhold rent. Tenants do not have the right to withhold rent because of their landlord’s failure to do repairs. The law does however provide tenants with a remedy for breach of the landlords repairing obligations. The ancient common law recoupment rights of self-help and set-off allow the tenant to recoup the reasonable cost of necessary repairs which the tenant has carried out and for which the landlord is liable by withholding future payments of rent. However, tenants considering exercising these rights must take care to follow a specific procedure otherwise they put themselves at risk of eviction and this is something for which expert advice must be sought.