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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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Reform’s councils begin war on net zero projects in countryside
GENEVIEVE HOLL-ALLEN
Richard Tice declares party’s local authorities will do everything to block renewable developments
Reform UK has declared war on net zero developments in the countryside.
Richard Tice, Reform’s deputy leader, said the party will use its new control of ten councils to use “every lever” available to block renewable projects.
The Telegraph can reveal that Mr Tice will write to potential developers in Lincolnshire projects following Reform’s historic local election victories on Friday.
He said: “I’m now going to write again to them, saying now that we’ve won these elections, you need to be under no illusion. This is war. We will wage war against you people and your terrible ideas.
“If you think that you’re going to do this in the county of Lincolnshire, you are going to regret it. You’re going to waste your money.
“It’s going to be very painful financially, so you might as well take your money and your daft ideas elsewhere.”
The MP for Boston and Skegness added: “Whether it’s planning blockages, whether it’s judicial reviews, whether it’s lawsuits, whether it’s health and safety notices, we will use every available legal measure to an extreme way in order to frustrate these people.”
Reform has gained control of eight authorities from the Conservatives, including in Kent and Staffordshire, as well as winning Durham council and seizing Doncaster from Labour.
In Lincolnshire, Dame Andrea Jenkyns was elected mayor and the party gained control of the county council.
Mr Tice said voters had shown their support for the party’s anti-net zero platform, having “voted in huge numbers to endorse our position”.
The deputy leader’s comments have revealed further details of the party’s plans for local government, after Reform made sweeping gains across the country.
It comes after Nigel Farage warned council workers working on climate change or diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) initiatives to seek “alternative careers very, very quickly”.
He made similar warnings to local authority workers who think that “they can go on working from home”.
On Saturday, Zia Yusuf, the party chairman, wrote on X: “Reform controlled councils will move at great speed to see that all its hiring is merit-based and colour blind.
“Reform-controlled councils will be where DEI goes to die.”
Reform outlined its energy policy in February, which included taxes on the renewables sector and new laws blocking new pylons from being erected.
Mr Tice demanded that any new cables in Lincolnshire be put underground or “around the Wash offshore”, which he said would be “the smarter, quicker thing to do”.
He added that he had met with senior figures in the National Grid, telling them about the party’s plans should it win the next general election.
In remarks to The Telegraph, he said: “We will attack these people and these ideas from every angle at every conceivable opportunity. […] The party’s position on net zero stands at odds with the Government’s current approach, with Ed Miliband having prioritised giving the green light to new solar farms and energy projects.
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