BBC presenters Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt sat down for their first in a series of interviews with party leaders.
Nigel Farage was first up and was probed on a number of topics including immigration and tax.
Munchetty asked: "Do you recognize that some of the language you've used before, and members of the Reform Party have used around immigration is divisive and inflammatory?
To which Farage replied: "I don't think anything I've said is inflammatory.
"What I've said is that for 50 years, we had net migration into Britain of 30 or 40,000 a year, that from the late 1940s, right up until the millennium, that now under a conservative government, net migration is running at three quarters of a million people every year.
Naga Munchetty probed Nigel Farage on BBC
BBC
"For example, we have to provide a new home every two minutes in this country just to deal with net migration. I've argued that our infrastructure is crumbling. I've argued that a health service can't cope."
To which Munchetty replied: "I do want to kind of clear up figures. What did you get? Every two minutes, a new home is created for some. for a migrant?"
Farage retorted: "A migrant a minute comes to Britain. In fact, it's actually more than that. But in simple terms. A migrant a minute comes. We have never."
To which Munchetty asked: "How many migrants are you saying? Come to Britain?"
Reaction to the interview was mixed with some pro and anti Farage but there were immediate accusations of BBC bias to the Reform leader.
One social media user wrote: "Sometimes the truth is divisive and inflammatory but you shouldn’t run away from it!"
Another said: "Impartial BBC interviewing and couldn’t make it any more obvious they were dead against him."
One simply said: "Biased lot," while Angela Gwinnett added: "Naga finds it difficult to hide her dislike of Nigel."
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