Britain should look at replicating a controversial Danish 'ghetto law' allowing officials to tear down social housing in immigrant-dominated neighbourhoods to promote 'assimilation', Kemi Badenoch said today.
The opposition leader said she was 'looking at' the scheme passed by the government in Copenhagen in 2023, which allows the redevelopment of urban areas with a majority 'non-Western' population.
The laws are controversial and are currently being challenged at the European Court of Justice by human rights groups, who argue it discriminates against people based on their ethnicity.
Under Danish law introduced by ex-PM Lars Lokke Rasmussen, social housing areas with high levels of deprivation and a 'non-Western' population above 50 per cent are declared 'parallel societies'.
Such a declaration can trigger requirements to reduce the amount of social housing in an area, including through evicting residents and demolishing or turning their homes into private housing, and restrictions on who can move there.
