Rishi Sunak vows to take ‘zero tolerance approach to anti-social behaviour’ by booting yobs out of council flats

YOBS who make life a misery for their neighbours face being booted out of council flats under a new clampdown.

Drug-taking tenants and those who play loud music will be hit with a “three strikes and you’re out” rule — and then sent to the back of the housing queue.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has vowed to take a “zero tolerance approach to all forms of anti-social behaviour”, with drugs at the forefront of the new blitz.

Soft drugs like laughing gas will be made a class C — with sentences of up to two years for possession or unlimited fines.

Visiting Chelmsford, Essex, yesterday with Home Secretary Suella Braverman, Mr Sunak said: “What we don’t want is for young people to get in bad habits at an early stage in their life.

“It’s important that we don’t have kids start doing something that leads on to more serious things down the line.”

It comes as statistics reveal more than half of people feel anti-social behaviour has become worse in their local area.

Six in ten think it has gone up — with Londoners most likely to say it was a big problem, according to an Ipsos MORI poll.

But critics warned last night that making laughing gas illegal would just drive it underground.

David Badcock, chief executive of the Drug Science committee, said: “It won’t stop young people using it. Banning any substance drives it into criminal hands.”