Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has branded the Labour Government an “absolute disgrace” after voicing outrage at the shocking number of migrants eligible for monthly benefits.
Lowe’s fury comes after it was revealed that more than 3.3 million foreign nationals have successfully completed habitual residence tests to receive Universal Credit every month since April 2019.
Speaking to GB News, Lowe fumed at the “evasive” answers that he has received from the DWP.
He said: “I personally think it’s an absolute disgrace that when asked I’m an MP, I should be able to ask these questions and get straight answers.
Rupert Lowe branded it an “absolute disgrace”
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“My job is to hold government to account, and my job is to ensure that we act collectively in the interests of the British people. Not people coming into this country legally or illegally.
“The British people who pay their taxes, who are basically extremely law abiding, who collect VAT, National Insurance, pay pensions, they gift wrap the lot, they pay it to the state.”
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Lowe, who obtained the data through DWP sources, has issued a direct challenge to the Whitehall department to either confirm or dispute the numbers.
He explained: “I think it’s handing out taxpayers money like confetti with absolutely no accountability whatsoever.
“Whether it’s motability, whatever they do, they seem to be handing our cash out without any constraints at all. We think that the figures we’ve come up with are very conservative. 50,000 people a month are increasingly claiming Universal Credit.
“Because the Government won’t answer our questions, we’ve had to effectively push this number out on the basis of the answers we have had, we get a few answers, such as on foreign criminals in jails.
“I think there is about 10,500 foreign criminals in in our prisons. I’ve said in the past they should be deported immediately.
Lowe fumed “the government won’t answer our questions”
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“We’ve also got effect re-offending rates for those prisoners. And I think there’s been 40,000 re offences from foreign prisoners, which is a disgrace in itself.
“So we are trying to use these questions to inform the British people of the way in which they’re being misled, mis-governed and kept in what I call mushroom corner, which is a dark and damp place.
“I think what we’re trying to do and we’re putting this out, we challenge the DWP if they disagree with these numbers, Martin, that I want to hear from them. I want them to tell me they’re wrong.
Lowe asked the DWP to come forward and challenge the figures
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“We don’t think they are wrong and that’s why we put them out.
“So it’s really a challenge to the opaque reporting system that our government appears to be guilty of.”
Responding to Lowe, a DWP spokesman told GB News: “We do not recognise this figure – it is a misrepresentation of DWP data.
“A successful Habitual Residence Test outcome is not the same as a successful Universal Credit claim. ”