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Nigel Farage accused Keir Starmer of dragging the UK again into the European Union by stealth and predicted voters will punish Labour for it.

The Reform UK chief stated “more and more people will come towards us” because the Prime Minister is “creeping back” in the direction of Brussels.

Ministers are contemplating permitting EU courts a say over meat and dairy imports, prompting fury amongst those that voted to go away the EU.

But Mr Farage – chatting with the Daily Express after parking Reform’s “tanks on the lawns of the Red Wall” – warned voters it’s an “indication of where we might be going”.

And the Brexit architect declared Labour will “oversee record numbers of illegals crossing the Channel”, as he set out his plans to sort out immigration, go away the European Convention on Human Rights, industrialisation, council spending, tax and advantages in a wide-ranging speech in County Durham.

Mr Farage, talking in Newton Aycliffe, one of many areas Boris Johnson focused in 2019 with the Get Brexit Done slogan, declared of Sir Keir: “Clearly, as far as the EU is concerned, he’s creeping back in little bit by little bit.

“What we saw yesterday with the ECJ was a sort of indication of where we might be going. “If that trend continues, and people wake up to it, yeah, they’ll pay a heavy price. More and more people will come towards us.”

The Reform UK chief added that Sir Keir will “oversee a record number of illegals coming to the UK”. More than 700 migrants are feared to have crossed the Channel on Tuesday, breaking the document for the variety of arrivals on a single day this 12 months.

Slamming Labour’s document on immigration, the Reform chief advised supporters: “Channel crossings so far this year are over 40% higher than they were last year, and that’s before we get the warm weather. That’s before temperatures in the Channel increase.

“So we’re on for a record year and there’s no sign of anyone crossing the Channel being deported. Nobody that comes is going to be deported because, and the Prime Minister made very clear in only his second speech in the Commons as Prime Minister, of how wedded he was to the European Convention on Human Rights.

“As far as we are concerned, this is about sovereignty, and we will leave the ECHR if we’re in Government, we’ll repeal the Human Rights Act and stop our now somewhat corrupted judiciary from using this at every opportunity to not deport people.”

Reform’s help for the reason that final election has soared from 18 to 30%. At the identical time, Labour’s vote share has plummeted from 39 to 27%. Mr Farage believes his celebration is attracting “life-long Labour voters” and accused Sir Keir’s celebration of abandoning the working class.

He advised the Daily Express: “It’s not safe going out on a Friday or Saturday night, if you’re a girl particularly. The tax burden gets bigger and bigger and bigger. You just feel the country doesn’t quite offer the opportunities that it should.

“That can be turned around, an economic turnaround, a societal, attitudinal turnaround, can make it a different place. At the moment, I just think we’re in decline.

“People are very, very pessimistic about the future. Going abroad has become a very attractive option, and it is amazing to think, Portugal, Italy, they are looking for young, bright people to go and move and many are.”

Mr Farage stated of his celebration concentrating on swathes of councils within the Midlands and Northern England: “Reform are parking their tanks on the lawns of the red wall. Today’s the first day I’ve said that but I absolutely mean it, and we’re here, and we’re here to stay.

“And the proof is that people who find themselves switching to us, this isn’t a brief time period protest. They truly imagine in us.”

He added: “If we go on like this, it will be ‘Nige-mare on Downing Street’.”

Mr Farage branded Labour “a really center class celebration dominated by human rights attorneys who appear to care extra about obscure ideas of worldwide regulation coming from overseas and in some circumstances, in my opinion, illegitimate courts, than it does about working individuals”.

But with help surging, questions are already being requested about what a Reform council will seem like. And the Reform chief vowed to slash spending on variety, fairness and inclusion (DEI) and “ergonomic chairs”.

Mr Farage, requested how he might assure that voters wouldn’t find yourself with the identical frustrations they’d underneath Labour and the Conservatives, stated: “No political party can ever guarantee anything but you can say what you’re going to do and then be judged on whether you’ve done it or not.

“I feel level primary is frankly we have to get the auditors in, we have to see the long-term contracts that many of those county or unitary authorities have signed as much as.

“We will have a look at the sums spent on DEI, we are going to have a look at the half-a-million quid being spent on ergonomic chairs for workers of Lancashire County Council.

“We will look at the £18,000 spent on driving lessons for cross-Channel migrants, and I could go on with a list as long as your arm.”

Mr Farage, discussing the plans for an Elon Musk-style Department Of Government Efficiencies , added: “I’ve been going around the country, at every county I’ve been to, reading up on lists of money, public money, that has been spent.

“Why are Cornwall spending £10.7 million pounds last year on agency staff, whilst at the same time they have a work from home culture? Hardly anyone is in county halls on Mondays or Fridays.

“Why are they spending money on DEI? Why are they spending money on climate change initiatives? Why are they spending tens of millions up and down the country on cycle lanes that no one uses?

“I do think there are big reductions that could be made. I do think an American DOGE-style department for every council in the country is needed. Does that solve all of the problems? No. But it’s a start.”

Reform has vowed to “reindustrialise” Britain and desires to elevate the tax-free allowance on earnings to £20,000.

“Reform will reindustrialise Britain and we’ll have a proper, sound industrial policy, but it only works if we start producing enough of our own gas and oil and coal, and all of those things,” Mr Farage stated.

He stated the extent at which we begin paying tax shouldn’t be “frozen the way it is year after year after year”.

“We believe the most dramatic tax change that is needed is to lift the level at which people start paying tax to £20,000 a year. That will mean people on low pay genuinely will be a bit better off.

“But equally necessary, it will incentivise these on advantages, who know that in the event that they work for greater than 16 hours every week, all their advantages can be taken away. It would incentivise them to get again to work. So I firmly imagine that we’re the celebration of working individuals.”