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    Reform UK chairman vows to use ‘every instrument of power available’ to stop migrants being housed in council areas his party now controls – and he says they’ll get 400 MPs

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    Reform UK chairman vows to use ‘every instrument of power available’ to stop migrants being housed in council areas his party now controls – and he says they’ll get 400 MPs
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    Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf today vowed to use ‘every instrument of power available’ to stop migrants being housed in areas where it now controls councils.

    He said the party would use judicial reviews, injunctions and even planning laws to resist asylum seekers being placed in the parts of England where it is now in power.

    Reform, led by Nigel Farage, gained more than 600 council seats and took control of 10 local authorities in Thursday’s local elections.

    The party also secured another MP by winning the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, and won mayoralties in Greater Lincolnshire and Hull and East Yorkshire.

    Mr Yusuf set out Reform’s intent to shake up town halls following their success across the country, which Mr Farage branded a ‘Reform-quake’.

    He pledged to introduce taskforces to audit spending in councils, as part of a promised crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

    Mr Yusuf also set his sights on taking over the House of Commons at the next general election, claiming his party were on course for ‘between 350 to 400 MPs’.

    ‘Nigel will be our prime minister,’ he said of Reform’s leader.

    Reform UK chairman vows to use ‘every instrument of power available’ to stop migrants being housed in council areas his party now controls – and he says they’ll get 400 MPs

    Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf vowed to use ‘every instrument of power available’ to stop migrants being housed in areas where it now controls councils

    Reform, led by Nigel Farage, gained more than 600 council seats and took control of 10 local authorities in Thursday's local elections

    Reform, led by Nigel Farage, gained more than 600 council seats and took control of 10 local authorities in Thursday’s local elections

    In the wake of his party’s local elections success, Mr Farage promised to ‘resist’ asylum seekers being housed in the counties where Reform was now in charge.

    He claimed they are being ‘dumped into the north of England, getting everything for free’.

    ‘It is unfair, it is irresponsible, it is wrong in every way and I don’t believe (Sir Keir) Starmer has got the guts to deal with it,’ Mr Farage added.

    But it is unclear whether Reform councils could block asylum seekers being housed in their council areas, as the system is managed by the Home Office.

    Asked how his party would intervene in contracts drawn up between the Home Office and accommodation providers, Mr Yusug told the BBC: ‘Judicial reviews, injunctions, there’s planning laws.

    ‘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.’

    Asked if Reform’s policy was to house migrants in tents, as the party’s newly elected Greater Lincolnshire mayor Dame Andrea Jenkyns suggested, Mr Yusuf said: ‘That’s what France does.’

    He added: ‘We will be publishing a plan to deport everybody who is currently in this country illegally in our first term of government.

    ‘We will publish that plan in the coming weeks and you’ll see the full detail.’

    Reform has pledged to sack council staff working on DEI and climate change, but Mr Yusuf was challenged about Lincolnshire County Council – where Dame Andrea has vowed to conduct a purge – not employing any.

    He replied: ‘If you take Lincolnshire County Council, yes, they do not currently have somebody with the job title ‘DEI officer’. They do spend considerable money on DEI initiatives.

    ‘And they have other people who have basically that same job, but under a different title, partly in response to the fact that they’ve been inundated by think tanks and activists putting in FOIs (freedom of information requests).’

    He said Reform would send ‘teams’ into councils, adding: ‘We’ll be opening up application shortly. We want the brightest and the best.

    ‘If you’ve got experience in audit, if you’ve got experience in fixing potholes, if you’re a software engineer.

    ‘We’re going to bring taskforces in. We’re now going to have access to the contract, access to the numbers, access to payroll, and we’re going to make these changes.’

    As Reform enjoyed huge success in the local elections, the Conservatives suffered one of the worst results in their history.

    The Tories lost more than 600 councillors and all 15 of the councils they controlled going into Thursday’s contest. 

    Speaking later to Times Radio, Mr Yusuf said Reform had a ‘defections team’ for those Tories thinking of switching allegiances.

    ‘Anyone who has a genuine desire to come and join us at Reform, who shares our values and is coming for the right reasons, of course we’ll look at that,’ he said.

    ‘We think we will win between 350 to 400 MPs at the next election. That’s Reform MPs and Nigel will be our PM.

    ‘I think the vast, vast, vast majority of those will be from the grassroots authentic Reform MPs.

    ‘I think the highest officers of the land will be occupied not by former Tory cabinet ministers but by Reform people through and through.’

    Tory leader Kemi Badenoch admitted Mr Farage had successfully tapped into the frustration of voters, but questioned whether Reform would now deliver for council residents.

    She told the BBC: ‘He is expressing the feeling of frustration that a lot of people around the country are feeling, but he also doesn’t have a record in government like the two main parties do.

    ‘Now he is going to be running some councils – we’ll see how that goes – but he is expressing a feeling of frustration (and) that is not my job.’

    Mrs Badenoch said her role is to come up with answers and solutions, adding of voters: ‘We understand why they were angry with us. We understand why they removed us from office.

    ‘They’re not going to come rushing back just because Labour was bad. They are looking at the two parties as parties that haven’t delivered.

    ‘I need to come up with a plan that will deliver. Easy announcements and easy slogans are not a plan.’



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