Foreign nationals would be banned from claiming almost all benefits by a Reform government.

Nigel Farage's party has pledged to save £21billion a year – part of £50billion in cuts to the welfare bill – by ending the 'immoral' system where British workers' taxes support citizens from overseas.

It goes far further than its existing plan to cut Universal Credit for migrants, with only military veterans such as Gurkhas spared the crackdown.

Even EU citizens who have settled in the UK would be stripped of their ability to claim welfare payments such as jobseeker's allowance and housing benefit, the party said, which would mean ripping up the Brexit deal.

But Labour warned the policy would 'mean stripping support from potentially millions of people who have lawfully lived, worked and paid taxes in Britain for years, in many cases decades'.

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