A national newspaper has revealed the UK Independence Party's housing spokesman is a millionaire landlord - with many of his tenants being immigrants.
The Mirror says Andrew Charalambous's company, Woodlands Estates Limited, received £745,315 in housing benefit cash for his tenants through Haringey Council in north London.
We operate in an area that is largely a migrant population. From a commercial point of view and a human point of view, we are not concerned about what the ethnic origin of the tenants is he told the paper.
On UKIP's website, the party says many London residents are forced to move out of the city to obtain cheaper housing. It describes this as a problem exacerbated by influxes of immigrants.
Charalambous is then quoted as saying: "With the 2011 census showing almost three million people or 36.7% of London's population are foreign-born.... it is likely that the inflow of migrants has been a massive factor in the overcrowding of the city's social housing. It is imperative that the issue is tackled.
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