Ben Habib: 'Migrants on benefits should be PAID to leave Britain as our country faces its greatest threat'

He continued: “Whatever that price is, however eye rolling big it might seem, it would be a drop in the ocean by comparison to the cost of having them here in perpetuity.”

The outspoken politician also supported mass deportations of illegal migrants, in contrast with Nigel Farage who told this broadcaster last year that the policy is not possible.

In September 2024 the Reform Party leader told GB News: “I’m not going to get dragged down the route of mass deportations or anything like that.”

Discussing whether all illegal migrants should be deported from Britain, Mr Farage said: “It’s impossible to do, literally impossible to do, but do we have to begin the process, yes.”

Meanwhile, Mr Habib appeared to break with his former leader, saying: “We need to, needless to say, or perhaps needful to say, deport all illegal migrants [and] have a program for repatriation of those who are here legally.”

“And actually, I would have a moratorium, an absolute moratorium on the right to for indefinite leave to remain, and a moratorium on handing out British citizenship to anyone.”

Last week, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch announced she would ban migrants on work visas who claim benefits from applying for indefinite leave to remain, which lays the path to British citizenship.

She also pledged to extend the period before migrants can apply for indefinite leave to remain from five to ten years.

Discussing his support for a moratorium on migration, Mr Habib said: “I don't care whether they're here legally or whatever, [there can be no migration] until we have got our borders under control and we have sorted out the cultural constitution of our populace.”

In 2023 a record 1.2 million people migrated to the UK, the majority of whom came from outside the European Union.

Research from the Centre for Migration Control estimates that more than one in four people in Britain will be born abroad by 2035.

The ex-Reform deputy leader described mass migration into Britain as being an existential threat to the country.

He said: “We've basically, in this pursuit of global prosperity, global integration, the promotion of everyone other than our own people and our own interest, done away with the democratic sovereign unit that is the United Kingdom.”

Mr Habib warned that this is the greatest threat the country faces and described similar threats across the continent.

Discussing Britain’s rapid ethnic demographic change, Mr Habib said the rate of the change is a “massive concern”.

He claimed “there's no positive program of integration, no positive program of bringing those cultures in, making sure that they adapt to our culture, that they adopt our values, and our belief systems.”

Mr Habib said that the sheer numbers of migrants coming into the United Kingdom in the last few decades means it is “impossible” to integrate them into British life.

He continued: “The whole point about a society, the whole point about a nation state, is that it should have an integrated, settled culture.”

“It doesn't have to be some kind of utopia. We never had a utopia.

“When I grew up, we had our own little problems, but they're all British problems.

“And now what we've got is we've imported problems from the rest of the world into the United Kingdom.”