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Millie Cooke, Political Correspondent
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Millie Cooke, Political Correspondent
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Badenoch under fire over housing plan
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Kemi Badenoch has come under fire today over the Tory party’s proposal to bar foreign nationals from social housing, with critics accusing her of copying Nigel Farage’s Reform Party with the “unserious and unworkable” plan to free up homes.
Opposition figures have warned the plan would not only breach the UK’s international obligations and end up in the courts, but it would also put many long-term UK residents, including NHS workers, at risk of homelessness - something which could, ultimately, end up more costly for taxpayers.
Charities Shelter and Crisis have both issued strong criticism of the plan, with the former describing it as “divisive” and “brutal", while Home Office minister Anna Turley said the “ill thought-through” idea will “further increase the numbers of people that are on the streets”.
“I think it's an odd thing to come from the Tories when homelessness went up so substantially on their record,” she said.
But the Conservatives have doubled down on the plan, insisting that "Britain cannot be a cash machine for the world”.
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Restore Britain, whose leader says the UK is facing Sharia law, won 8.7 per cent of the vote in the Manchester mayoral election as Sean O’Grady reminds us
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Kemi Badenoch says barring foreign nationals from social housing – evicting existing tenants within six months and blocking new arrivals – could free up 230,000 homes. Our community say the Conservatives’ own record on housing, from Right to Buy to years of under-building, undermines that claim
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Former Conservative chancellor Phillip Hammond told The Independent that the bond markets ‘will see straight through this ruse and price UK debt up accordingly’
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Lessons from No 10: When the world's most powerful CEOs enter Downing Street |
Jimmy McLoughlin joins Helen MacNamara and Cleo Watson to discuss what ministers really need to understand about business. Now host of Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future, he argues that politicians do not all need to have run companies themselves – but they do need to understand the people who have.
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Lessons from No 10: When the world's most powerful CEOs enter Downing Street |
Jimmy McLoughlin joins Helen MacNamara and Cleo Watson to discuss what ministers really need to understand about business. Now host of Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future, he argues that politicians do not all need to have run companies themselves – but they do need to understand the people who have.
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Andy Burnham not so keen on devolution after all
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John Rentoul, Chief Political Commentator
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John Rentoul, Chief Political Commentator
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The row between Westminster city council and 10 Downing Street has escalated. The council wants to restrict people standing up drinking in and outside pubs, while a spokesperson for Andy Burnham said: “Busy pubs full of people talking to each other is not a public nuisance, it is British life, and it is thousands of jobs.”
The prime minister’s spokesperson suggested that the government would take away powers from councils over licensing decisions if they try to restrict “vertical” drinking.
So much for the new prime minister’s much-vaunted commitment to devolving power from the centre. He wants to devolve power – provided local government does what he wants with it.
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‘Trying to out-Reform Reform’: Readers slam Tory social housing plan
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Kemi Badenoch says barring foreign nationals from social housing – evicting existing tenants within six months and blocking new arrivals – could free up 230,000 homes. Our community say the Conservatives’ own record on housing, from Right to Buy to years of under-building, undermines that claim.
Here’s what you had to say:
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Poor old Tories. On pretty much every significant policy area, their own record in government is at best a catalogue of failures and at worst has caused the problems that they now complain of. Every Conservative government since 2010 has pledged to bring immigration down, every one presided over increases. It was the Tories who sold off social housing, and it was the Tories who strangled local authorities by introducing legislation to actually prevent them from building more. Farage bleating on about immigration is a joke too. The so-called “Boris wave” was a consequence of the acute labour shortages that loomed in the wake of Brexit. What would Farage have done had he been in power? Let businesses fail and the care sector fall apart completely?
RickC
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The question needs to be asked: given the Tories were in government for nearly 15 years, why have they waited until now to come out with this policy? I believe it is yet another attempt by Badenoch to out-Reform Reform. Much has been written about Badenoch’s apparent approval ratings rise, but this is not being reflected in the polling for the Tory party. This is clearly another ill-thought-out, cruel policy designed to appeal to Reform supporters in the hope of persuading them back into the Tory fold.
Fru T-Bunn
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