A Reform council is set to become the first in history to withdraw from the government’s refugee resettlement scheme as it promises to ‘put British people first’.
Reform has announced that it will pull the local authority out of the UK resettlement scheme, launched in 2021 by the Conservative Government to provide newly–arrived legal refugees with housing, healthcare, education and employment support.
But the north west council run by Nigel Farage‘s insurgent party is now calling time on the scheme, arguing it has forced the authority to place the needs of those just arrived in the country ahead of long–term residents.
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