Reform UK’s Chairman has promised to use every available tool to prevent asylum seekers being housed in areas where it now controls local councils. The National has more.
Nigel Farage had vowed to “resist” asylum seekers being housed in the county council areas now under Reform control after his party took more than 600 seats and won control of 10 local authorities in Thursday’s polls.
Reform UK Chairman Zia Yusuf, when asked how this would be possible because contracts are drawn up between the Home Office and accommodation providers, said the party would use “every instrument of power available”.
“Judicial reviews, injunctions, there’s planning laws,” he told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme.
“You know, a lot of these hotels – there has been litigation around this already – a lot of these hotels, when you suddenly turn them into something else which is essentially a hostel that falls foul of any number of regulations, and that’s what our teams of lawyers are exploring at the moment.”
He said the party was “realistic” about the fact the levers of change at a local level “pale in comparison” to the powers of Westminster.
“That’s why this is part of a journey to making Nigel the Prime Minister with a Reform majority.”
Mr Yusuf said Reform would be publishing a plan to “deport everybody who is currently in this country illegally” if elected to national government. …
Meanwhile, the new Reform Greater Lincolnshire mayor, Dame Andrea Jenkyns, doubled down on her suggestion that migrants could be housed in tents, saying the UK was “acting like bees to honey by putting people in hotels”.
“This is taxpayers’ money and it should actually be tents, not rent,” the former Tory minister told LBC.
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