{"id":605360,"date":"2026-05-26T19:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605360\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:58:08","slug":"yusuf-in-clash-with-jenrick-over-reforms-deportation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605360\/","title":{"rendered":"Yusuf in clash with Jenrick over Reform&#8217;s deportation policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It comes after Jenrick was asked about how Reform&#8217;s deportation policy compared to that of Restore Britain, led by Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe, during an interview with Sky News on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Restore has set out criteria for deportation for foreign nationals legally resident in the UK, which includes if they live in social housing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reform has proposed abolishing indefinite leave to remain (ILR) &#8211; a status that generally allows foreign nationals access to benefits, including social housing &#8211; and requiring migrants to reapply for new time-limited visas with tougher rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Jenrick outlined the proposed changes, he was asked if he was saying that a foreign national legally resident in the UK could be deported just because they live in social housing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jenrick, the MP for Newark and a former immigration minister, replied: &#8220;Well, not exclusively because of that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But if they fail to meet our criteria because they&#8217;re not in work or they&#8217;re not working as many hours, not earning enough money, then they won&#8217;t be able to renew their work visa because ILR won&#8217;t exist, and they will be asked to leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added social housing would be &#8220;purely for British citizens&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It comes after Jenrick was asked about how Reform&#8217;s deportation policy compared to that of Restore Britain, led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-605360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}