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THE Tories’ plan to force landlords to check tenants immigration status will lead to “widespread discrimination,” shadow home secretary Andy Burnham warned yesterday.
Included in the Immigration Bill to be debated in Parliament tomorrow is the controversial right-to-rent scheme, which would make renting homes to “illegal immigrants” a criminal offence.
Labour frontbencher Mr Burnham said the policy “seeks to propagate immigration myths rather than slay them.
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Burnham’s U-turn on tackling greedy landlords has let the country down
The new PM may offer more of the same, but early signs on his housing policies look promising, says GLYNN ROBBINS
‘Rent freezes are not a way forward at the moment,’ Housing Secretary Angela Rayner says
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO