Angela Rayner has axed Conservative-era plans to prioritise British citizens over migrants in social housing applications. The previous Tory Government had proposed reforms which would have barred recent arrivals from applying for council homes – which Labour’s new Housing Secretary has now formally shelved. Michael Gove’s proposals had included a “UK connection test”, which would have meant only people who had lived in the country for 10 years or more were eligible to join the 1.3million-household-long queue for council properties. Said test would have applied to people already in the queue -…
