REFORM UK’s plans to make British citizens born abroad wait longer for social housing would create a “two-tier” Britain, parties warned today.

The party said it would prioritise British-born workers under 35, former military personnel and married couples with children for social housing if it entered government.

Deputy leader Richard Tice also announced plans to reserve at least half of all social homes in England for young British workers, saying: “The role of the British government is actually to look after British citizens first.”

British or Irish nationals made up 88.5 per cent of main social home householders in 2024-25, according to the English Housing Survey.

It means that about 11.5 per cent of main householders, the person whose name is on the agreement, were non-British or Irish nationals.

Reform has previously announced it would evict foreign nationals from social housing — a plan criticised by housing charity Shelter, which said building more homes is the solution, rather than “changing the order of the queue” and “stoking division.”

Mr Tice said Reform would raise £10 billion a year to build new homes, in part by reintroducing the 1980s Right to Buy scheme, allowing people to buy council homes at a discount.

Green MP Sian Berry said: “Another blatantly racist and cruel policy from Reform, adding to a host of plans to create a two-tier Britain — one for those born in the UK and one for everyone else.

“As to the pledge to build 50,000 affordable homes, this cannot be taken seriously from a party made up of ex-Tories who flogged off hundreds of thousands of council homes under Right to Buy.”

She said the Green Party would end Right to Buy, build and buy hundreds of thousands of new council homes and introduce rent controls, “ensuring everyone can access more affordable housing.”

A Labour spokesperson called the plans “unserious and unworkable,” accusing Reform of pushing gimmicks and division that would target “long-term UK residents that have contributed to our country,” including NHS staff.

“It would leave more families at risk of homelessness and drive up use of temporary accommodation at the taxpayers’ expense,” they said.

“It would also mean renegotiations with the EU, resulting in years of wrangling.”

The Liberal Democrats’ Gideon Amos branded the plans a “cruel gimmick.”