Nigel Farage has expressed his outrage towards the Labour Party on behalf of his Clacton constituents, as Yvette Cooper has pledged to deport tens of thousands of illegal migrants by the end of the year.
The Reform UK leader and MP for the Essex town said the Home Secretary was "wrong" to believe they can "sweep this issue under the rug" and "wave a magic wand" at the surge in illegal Channel crossings.
In their latest set of party pledges, Cooper vowed to bring in a new "border security command" which will "establish a system that is better controlled and managed".
Hitting back at Labour, Farage told GB News that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will "let everybody stay" despite the plans and claimed he has "heard it all before".
Nigel Farage has blasted Labour for 'sweeping migrant issue under the rug' with the latest promises
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Reacting to the latest migration figures, Farage raged: "People are unhappy and they feel that in the Brexit referendum and in voting for Boris, they voted for all of this to be brought under control and they frankly have been ignored.
"And that's why they voted for me here. That's why they voted Reform."
Highlighting the fury from residents in Clacton on the issue of migration, Farage noted that the enormous house-building targets are also an issue which impacts small communities such as theirs.
Farage explained: "One of the biggest things is housebuilding. Everywhere you go within this constituency, there are 50 new houses here, 100 new houses there. We're told under a Labour Government, those targets from central Government will double.
The Home Secretary has promised to deport at least 14,000 illegal migrants by the end of 2024
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"So the impact on an area like this of just the new houses with, by the way, no more GP surgeries and no new roads - the sense of unfairness, sense of injustice burns very, very strong."
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When asked for his verdict on the latest figures on work visas, which show an 11 per cent decrease, Farage claimed that Britain is "not training enough of our own workers", and Government is relying too heavily on "imported workers".
Farage told GB News: "They aren't training enough doctors, so we rely on imported doctors. What kind of madness is that? Same for nursing.
"We've made nursing an unfashionable profession, we've not encouraged people. We've made them go to university to get degrees before becoming nurses, God knows why. And so we take nurses from Africa and places where they're probably needed even more.
"So I think what these figures tell you, through all the different sectors, whether it's skills with engineering, whether it's medical, professional care, is we need to be training our own people to do these jobs."
Nigel Farage says Labour will 'let everybody stay' despite promises to crack down on migration
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When grilled on how Reform UK would tackle the issue of migration, Farage declared: "You can put a thousand new enforcement officers in place, but if the European Court of Human Rights stops you deporting people, what difference does it make?
"A country is not a country without controlling its borders. And you'll never do that with that activist foreign court in Strasbourg, which, remember, stopped that plane taking off to Rwanda back in 2022. We are clear that is the first step."
He added: "What we saw in the figures this morning was the productivity of the Home Office civil servants literally collapsing in the year up to the General Election, just not processing cases.
"Therefore, the waiting list gets longer. But Labour will wave a magic wand, they'll solve all of it, and they'll let everybody stay."
