Overview

• Reform UK has formally launched its legal campaign to prevent asylum hotels in the ten councils it recently gained control over in the May 2025 elections.
• Deputy leader Richard Tice confirmed the party is working with a team of pro bono lawyers, including a leading KC, to pursue these challenges.
• The party is using a strategy termed 'Lawfare,' employing legal levers such as health and safety and planning regulations to resist central government policies.
• While citing a 2022 legal victory in Great Yarmouth as precedent, Tice admitted similar challenges have often failed in the past.
• Pre-action legal letters to the Home Office are reportedly being prepared and could be sent as early as this week.