Nigel Farage has laid into Sir Keir Starmer after the Prime Minister unveiled his plans to crackdown on Britain's "broken" borders.Speaking to GB News, the Reform UK leader accused Starmer of being "insincere" and warned he was "playing catch up" on the issue of immigration.FULL STORY HERE.
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00:00Really? Really? They weren't before May the 1st, were they?
00:04I mean, Kirsten Armour has spent his whole career campaigning for free movement of people,
00:07wholly unconcerned about this subject.
00:10So much so that their massive parliamentary majority was gained without immigration,
00:14even being one of their five main priorities.
00:17Now, of course, he knows that amongst the great British public,
00:20this issue rates even higher than the health service,
00:24and he's just basically playing catch-up with reform.
00:26So, what do you think when you heard Sir Kirsten Armour talk about
00:30we risk becoming a nation of strangers, these forces tearing us apart?
00:35This is language you wouldn't have heard the PM say, I think, before the elections.
00:40You wouldn't have heard the PM said at any point in his life.
00:43This is not the conversation of the North London Dinner Party set, believe you me.
00:48Now, I mean, many of the things he said are the same things I've been saying for over 20 years.
00:52And that's Starmer's problem, insincerity.
00:55What does this man actually believe in, other than trying to keep power for its ends?
01:00He says he means it.
01:02I believe it.
01:03I'm saying it.
01:03I believe it.
01:04He did say five times he wants to take back control.
01:08That was your rival campaign's slogan from 2016.
01:13No, I was using take back control in 2004.
01:15Yeah.
01:16So, no.
01:17I mean, look, look.
01:18This is wholly insincere at every level.
01:21And whatever happens, there are still massive loopholes here for overseas students.
01:26And net migration is still going to run under this Labour government at many hundreds of thousands a year.
01:32And all of this on the same day when we see hundreds of people, young men, crossing the English Channel.
01:38I would ask the Prime Minister how confident is he?
01:41There are no Iranian terrorists on those boats this morning.
01:44And he was asked a question.
01:46One of the journalists asked him about the ECHR.
01:48He's utterly committed to staying part of it.
01:51Indeed, his second speech as Prime Minister in the House of Commons was his love of the ECHR.
01:56Nothing is going to change.
01:57And I think today, we'll look back on today a little bit like Rishi Sunak's pledges.
02:03Stop the boats.
02:04Remember that?
02:04Rishi stopped the boats.
02:05He didn't stop the boats.
02:06It cost the Conservatives very, very dearly in the general election.
02:11So to return to your original question, am I worried?
02:13I'm afraid not.
02:15If he was to succeed with all of this, I'd praise him to the heavens.
02:18But he's not.
02:19Is it enough?
02:19They'll cut visas by 100,000 a year.
02:22I pushed Yvette Cooper moments ago.
02:25Maybe 500,000 net migration.
02:27By then the Parliament, she wouldn't go there.
02:28We want to cut it by substantially, she says.
02:30Your plan is one in, one out, isn't it?
02:32How will that work?
02:33Well, just by limiting the numbers that can come in, by stopping foreign dependents coming,
02:37by making sure that anybody that comes on a work visa leaves at the end of the period of time for that visa.
02:43Doing actually what most normal countries do all over the world.
02:47If you were Prime Minister, you'd have the NHS saying we need more care workers.
02:50You'd have the farmers saying we need more people to pick the vegetables.
02:54And they can't rot in the fields because of your determination not to have any more migrants.
02:58The vegetables did not rot in the fields.
03:00If you go back before the year 2000, and I'm sorry, but this endless demand for cheap foreign labour is unacceptable at every level.
03:09And remember, all this talk about workers, most people that come don't even work, which is why it's making us poorer.
03:18ECHR, he said clearly we are not going to pull out of the ECHR.
03:22That's the European Convention on Human Rights.
03:23That's your policy.
03:24The Tories are going towards that policy, aren't they?
03:26He says that to get these bilateral deals with France and Germany, you must stay within the confines of ECHR.
03:32Is he right?
03:33I suspect that bilateral deals could mean even more people coming into Britain, not less.
03:37And how ironic that he's giving this statement today.
03:41He's boasting about trade deals with India, with America, all Brexit freedoms.
03:46And next week, he's off to Brussels to potentially sign us up to free movement for the under-30s across the whole of Europe.
03:52This sums up this Prime Minister.
03:54He is literally all over the place.
03:56And what I found going around the country, particularly in labour areas, people said, you know, we don't know who he is.
04:02We don't know what he stands for.
04:03We prefer Jeremy Corbyn.
04:04At least we knew what he believed in.
04:06In a sense, you're driving a policy.
04:08Or do you feel you are?
04:09I mean, certainly, the language certainly is there.
04:11I mean, they've been working on these plans for months and months and months.
04:13They have agreed, they said they would do in the election, to cut net migration.
04:19But the language is changing, isn't it?
04:20We are controlling the narrative.
04:22In terms of the rhetoric, it's follow my leader.
04:26They're following reform on all of this.
04:28But do they have the will to drive any of this through?
04:31I very much doubt it.