Reform UK plan to target EU nationals based in Britain ‘absolutely outrageous’

Reform UK’s Treasury spokesperson, Robert Jenrick, announcing the party’s ‘migrants labour levy’ in London last week. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

EU nationals based permanently in the UK have expressed alarm over a Reform UK plan to target their rights to accommodation and employment, saying the policy is a betrayal of promises made in the Brexit referendum 10 years ago.

Under updated migration policies, Nigel Farage’s party would evict all overseas nationals from social housing and make it notably more expensive for companies to employ them, with both policies also affecting EU nationals who have settled status.