Nearly half of new homes build under Labour cancelled out by influx of migrants
Almost half of the homes built under Labour have been cancelled out by the massive influx of migrants arriving in the UK, damning new data has revealed.
Since Sir Keir Starmer took office in 2024, an estimated 312,606 people have added to the population through net migration.
Figures show these arrivals have created new pressure for 130,166 homes, equal to 47 per cent of the homes built by the government.
Conservative MP Katie Lam has slammed Labour for failing to implement safe immigration policies.
She told The Daily Express: âThe combination of low supply, because of restrictions on housebuilding, and high demand, driven mostly by immigration, has left a whole generation locked out of home ownership.
âThey’ve not made it any easier to get houses built, and they’ve failed to implement the kind of limited, selective immigration system that the British people have voted for, time and time again.â
Ms Lam also accused Sir Keirâs Government of making âboth problems worse”.
Meanwhile, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philip warned: âThis is what uncontrolled immigration looks like.
“Nearly half of all homes Labour delivers vanish before a British family gets a look in.
New figures have revealed that houses built by Labour have been cancelled out by mass migration
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âLabour have failed on both housing and immigration.
âThe Conservatives have set out a plan that tackles the problem at both ends. Through our Borders Plan, we will leave the ECHR, remove all illegal immigrants within a week of arrival, end the merry-go-round of appeals, and we will curb the pressures driving demand, scrap Stamp Duty to get the market moving, and free up the homes families need.
âThat is how we restore fairness and give people a real path to ownership.â
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Alp Mehmet, the Chair of Migration Watch UK, said that the figures showed âmigration on this scale will add huge pressure on the existing housing stock.
“If the Government wants to ease pressure on housing it should begin by controlling, then reducing, immigration.”
A Labour Party spokesman said the Tories had “completely lost control of our borders when they were in power and let migration skyrocket”.
He added: “At the same time, they fuelled a housing crisis which is still being felt today in communities everywhere.
“Their brass neck is off the charts.
“Itâs pathetic that the Conservatives are whining about a Labour government that is cleaning up their mess. They still havenât even apologised.
“The Tories failed, but Labour is delivering.
“With Labour, net migration has fallen by 82 per cent and weâve removed 67,000 people with no right to be here. And weâve changed planning laws to get Britain building more homes and infrastructure again.”
