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Oh dear. It seems that tensions in the Reform are boiling over in the summer heat. On Sunday, Robert Jenrick, the party’s Treasury spokesman, did a media round, talking up the party’s new policy on overtime for earners on less than £75,000. In the course of it, Sky’s Trevor Phillips took the chance to ask Jenrick about the party’s social housing plans:
Phillips: ‘You’re saying to me that a foreign person who is legally resident but lives in social housing will be deported under a Reform government just because of that they live in social housing?’
Jenrick: ‘Well not exclusively because of that. If they fail to meet our criteria because they’re not in work or they’re not working as many hours, not earning enough money, they won’t be able to renew their work visa because IRL won’t exist and they’ll be asked to leave.’
Zia Yusuf, the party’s Home Affairs spokesman, has now fired back on X, writing this morning in response to a two-day old tweet:
