Right-To-Buy Extension Could Hand Cheap Homes To Immigrants,

Homes could be bought with a significant discount by migrants that have been in the UK for just three years under the Government's Right-to-Buy programme, a Labour MP has warned. Tristram Hunt told The Huffington Post UK that the Conservative election pledge to extend the policy to 1.2m housing association properties could "exacerbate concern about immigration". Mr Hunt says he has been told at least one in ten homes go to people from outside the UK at one housing association in his Stoke-on-Trent constituency. The MP says against the "ill-considered" plan the Government "must be sensitive to the potential effects" of migrants getting homes amid long housing waiting lists. Read more on the Huffington Post website.