Tory Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Helen Whately has been grilled on how the public can trust the Conservatives as the party pledged to end social housing for foreign nationals. “Billions of pounds of British taxpayers' money is being spent on welfare for foreign nationals, and that includes social housing. The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary has defended the Tory policy to end social housing for foreign nationals | GB NEWS“Foreign nationals, if they're choosing to live in the UK, should be contributing to the UK economy,” the top Tory continued. “They shouldn't be claiming benefits, and they shouldn't be living in social housing, which is limited. “That included £7billion from stopping welfare payments to foreign nationals and saying we're stopping social housing for foreign nationals,” she said.