Nigel Farage Proposes Social Housing Ban and Mass Deportations

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has proposed a policy to ban all foreign nationals from social housing, requiring them to secure private accommodation within three months or face deportation and the loss of their right to remain. Detailed in a lengthy Substack essay and dubbed Operation Restoring Justice, the plan would apply retrospectively and aligns with the party's goal to abolish Indefinite Leave to Remain. Farage argues that taxpayers should not fund housing for non-citizens while British citizens remain on waiting lists, though he noted exemptions for care leavers and survivors of domestic abuse.

Alongside the housing ban, Farage pledged to abolish the Equality Act, cap the recruitment of foreign doctors, and move toward a purely meritocratic university admissions system. He alleged that anti-white racism is institutionalized within the state and characterized existing equality legislation as social cleansing.

Government officials and critics have condemned the plan. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy described the rhetoric as hate and division. A government spokesperson clarified that illegal migrants and those on student or work visas are already ineligible for social housing. Additionally, the Labour Party suggested the policy would necessitate a massive deportation force to implement.