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  More than 230,000 non-EU foreign households face eviction under Badenoch’s plan to stop UK being used as ‘cash machine’ Daily Telegraph 06/08/26 Kemi Badenoch has pledged to evict foreign nationals from council housing, under plans to end Britain’s status as a “cash machine for the world”. The Conservatives would eject almost 230,000 non-EU foreign national households, which the party said would free up homes for British families. The policy would also ban any foreigners, from the EU or elsewhere, from signing new tenancies . Announcing the plans, Helen Whately, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said: “Making Britain your home should be earned by working, paying tax and integrating. “It should not come with a free ride on the benefits system. Britain cannot be a cash machine for the world.” The waiting list for social housing has reached 1.3 million households in the UK, and housing charities have warned that the backlog will take more than a century to clear at the current...

  Labour slips to second place behind Farage’s party in new poll Daily Telegraph 04/08/26 Reform UK has regained its lead over Labour in a YouGov poll that suggests the “Burnham bounce” has subsided. Andy Burnham’s popularity was credited with ending Reform’s long period of poll dominance last week as a first voting intention survey in 16 months saw Nigel Farage’s party fall to second place. However, the latest YouGov voting intention survey puts Reform on 23 per cent, up one percentage point and ahead of Labour on an unchanged 22 per cent. Dr Patrick English, the pollster’s head of elections and political data, told The Telegraph: “I would say that there certainly has been a positive response from the British public to Labour’s removal of Keir Starmer and replacement with Andy Burnham, who is currently the most positively rated party leader that we are measuring. “There has been a response there, and I think that’s to be expected, but even though Burnham leads our favourability r...

Reform should enter into a coalition, but with the mainstream Right not the hard Right Daily Telegraph 03/08/26 Regardless of their recent slip in the polls, it’s been clear for some time Reform can only take power at the next election as part of a Right-leaning coalition . But Nigel Farage will be making a huge mistake if he pursues any pact with Rupert Lowe’s Restore. This risks sending Reform tumbling further in the polls and drastically reducing the prospect of victory. Speaking today at a press conference on illegal immigration, Farage said he was open to an informal chat with Lowe’s party . This came after Lowe’s prior offer of a closer relationship and Farage’s comment at the weekend that he wanted to create a broad coalition on the Right to rescue Britain Farage needs to walk back this offer of a chat. A relationship that ended so appallingly between the two men is irreparable. The characters of the two men are such that a sensible working relationship could never happen. And a...

Prime Minister says ‘hard hats as important as graduate caps’ as he vows to get young people working Daily Telegraph 28/07/26 Andy Burnham has argued that Sir Tony Blair’s drive to get half of school leavers to attend university “let down” a generation of young people. Unveiling his plan to tackle youth unemployment on Tuesday, the Prime Minister said that under his leadership Britain would “value the hard hat every bit as much as the graduation cap”. Mr Burnham’s intervention, a rejection of three decades of policy, came amid a surge in spending on youth sickness benefits and concerns that students were being saddled with thousands of pounds of debt after studying poor-quality courses. The Prime Minister said: “For too long in this country, students have been told that you must take the academic path to do well and to be respected. “The whole school system has been built around it and that has let down young people seeking technical qualifications. “I want an education system based ...