Nigel Farage has said the government’s manifesto promises to cut net migration to the tens of thousands is “not very far away from lying to people.”
Speaking on GB News he said: “The rules are not being applied and no one seems to really care and I find context interesting because a number of senior Labour and Conservative figures have been arguing now for a couple of years, that we should actually take student numbers out of the immigration figures completely.
“I'm not sure why any student should be allowed to bring any dependents to come and permanently settle in Britain - that is absolutely ridiculous.
“And once they've graduated, you stay for a couple of years, you get a job and then get permanently to remain.
Nigel Farage has blasted the UK Home OfficeGB News
“Our universities appear to be obsessed by money, whether it's money coming from foreign students, grants from Chinese companies linked directly to the Chinese government - there's too much of it going on. Yes, in many ways. It is a great export for us. It does bring money into the country, but effectively it's becoming a backdoor route to mass immigration.
“They could sign up for a British course and do it from wherever they live in the world because, of course, we want people to spend money in our country, but I just think this is being abused wholesale.
“I think what we have to understand is that those in London, that run the Home Office, in our elite universities, in our government and opposition - they are entirely unconcerned by the exploding population in Britain.
“The impact of that on people's lives is not just being felt but I think increasingly, this is going to be the issue that dominates not just the next general election, but years to come.
“I'm sorry, but the 2010 manifesto said ‘we will reduce net migration of tens of thousands a year’. They said it again in 2015. Again in 2017. They paid lip service to it in 2019.
“And you actually realise they never ever meant any of it. They've been getting away with telling the British public what they think the public wants to hear, without ever intending to deliver it. I mean, it's not very far away from lying to people.”
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