If this is genuinely about solving the housing crisis, where is the plan to build more social housing?
89% of new social housing lettings already go to UK nationals. The remaining 11% include legally eligible non UK nationals such as Irish citizens, people with settled EU status, refugees who have been granted leave to remain in the UK, and those with indefinite leave to remain.
These are not asylum seekers, who generally have no recourse to public funds and cannot access social housing while their claims are being processed.
Meanwhile, more than 1.3 million households are on social housing waiting lists in England.
Deporting people who are already housed would do nothing to address the root causes of the crisis and would likely increase homelessness and housing insecurity. It is simply rearranging the deckchairs on a sinking ship.
The uncomfortable truth is that talking about who occupies a limited number of homes generates headlines. Building enough social housing to end the shortage requires long term political commitment. One changes the story. The other changes the outcome.
🚨NEW: Rupert Lowe says that a Restore Britain government would immediately deport foreign nationals living in social housing who are unable to financially support themselves