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Tories’ right-to-rent plan will open door to racist landlords
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.
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