Tories to end council housing for foreigners
The party says the move would free up 228,144 homes for British families and require ineligible tenants to leave within six months.
- The Conservatives have pledged to make foreign nationals ineligible for social housing if they regain power, aiming to free up around 230,000 homes for British families.
- Reform UK leader Nigel Farage previously pledged to evict all foreign nationals from social housing, claiming Britain is currently a "two-tier state against white people." The Conservative proposal mirrors this rhetoric.
- Official 2024/25 data indicates 88.5% of main householders are UK or Irish nationals, with 11.5% non-UK/Irish citizens, amid 1.34 million households on social housing waiting lists as of March 2025.
- Legal experts warned retrospective evictions for lawful tenants would likely breach the European Convention on Human Rights, while Labour Party spokespeople denounced the plan as "unserious and unworkable."
- Shelter chief executive Sarah Elliott warned the policy would drive up homelessness and affect long-term residents like NHS staff, rather than addressing the systemic lack of affordable housing.
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