‘How can people trust you on this issue?’ Ellie Costello grills top Tory on pledge to end social housing for foreign nationals

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Kemi Badenoch has been warned over her plan to end council housing for foreign nationals by a Labour border minister.

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The Conservative leader announced her plan to move nearly 230,000 non-EU foreign national households out of council homes to open them up for British families.She said that migrants from any country, including EU member states, would also be barred from taking on new social housing tenancies if the Tories win the next General Election.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say "The reality is that the only people who can access social housing are people who genuinely have a right to be here," Ms Turley began.

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"They are settled, they are claiming citizenship.

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So I think it's important that they are actually integrating into our communities, that they are part of society, and it's important that we're able to do that."The borders...

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Tory Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Helen Whately has been grilled on how the public can trust the Conservatives as the party pledged to end social housing for foreign nationals.GB News host Ellie Costello asked: "Do you honestly think that people are going to trust you to tackle this issue?" Yesterday, Kemi Badenoch announced that she would move nearly 230,000 non-EU foreign national households out of council homes to open them up for British families.She said that migrants from any country, including EU member states, would also be barred from taking on new social housing tenancies if the Tories win the next General Election.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say "We know that British people feel that they are being taken for a ride," Ms Whately began.

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"Billions of pounds of British taxpayers' money is being spent on welfare for foreign nationals, and that includes social housing."At the moment, you've got over a million households on the waiting list for social housing, often...

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