Farage vows to ban foreign nationals from social housing

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said his party would ban foreign nationals from living in social housing, with tenants required to find private accommodation within three months or face possible deportation.

The party confirmed the ban would apply retrospectively, regardless of how long someone has been living in the UK, under Reform's policy of abolishing Indefinite Leave to Remain.

In a 6,800-word Substack essay , the Clacton MP said "anti-white racism was embedded into the state", and that legislation aimed at equality was a form of "social cleansing".

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told Sky News: "People want hope. They don't want more anger, they don't want more division."

"There are serious challenges that this country faces. People have not felt listened to or heard," she said, adding: People want better, they want more."

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said Farage was "pushing the politics of grievance and division that goes totally against our fundamental British values of tolerance and decency".

Farage argued that politicians had created "a backdoor for anti-white discrimination".

He reiterated his party's policy that foreign nationals would not have access to welfare and said those in social housing would have three months to find alternative private rented accommodation.