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Reform UK chief Nigel Farage has demanded a “halt” on immigration because of the “cultural damage” and “broken communities”. Speaking to the Daily Express at a VE Day lunch, the Clacton MP stated most of the “millions of people” which have entered the UK over the previous 20 years “do not share our values”, which is “devaluing” Britain.

His feedback comply with report Channel migrant crossings this yr up to now, with greater than 11,500 individuals having arrived within the UK after making the journey. Mr Farage stated: “We have to call a halt. A 10 million rise in the last 20 years has devalued the quality of life for everybody, damaged us culturally, broken up our communities, broken up our sense of patriotism, and belief. And you know what? Not everything is about big business employers.” The Reform UK chief added claimed the UK has “nothing in common” with the “millions of people that we’ve allowed” into Britain.

“Many of those that have come in the last 20 years do not share our values,” he continued. “And so in a sense, we become a little bit less British every day. And I do view that as being a problem.”

The values that the Reform UK chief referenced embody “duty, family, community and country” – values which he stated he shares with the World War II veterans that he hosted on VE Day.

Mr Farage defined that most of the battle heroes “gravitate towards me in political terms because I believe in their values,” including that there’s a concern that these ideas are fading.

Earlier this week, it was revealed that the true price of migrant motels and lodging will price £15billion over 10 years, in response to the National Audit Office.

This is equal to British taxpayers paying £4,191,780 a day on housing asylum seekers over the lifetime of the 10-year contracts.

The determine is almost triple what the Home Office had beforehand predicted, claiming that asylum lodging contracts would price £4.5billion between 2019 and 2029.

But they’re now set to price a staggering £15.3billion, the watchdog report stated.

It added that the variety of individuals looking for asylum housed in Home Office lodging rose by 134% between December 2019 and 2024, from 47,000 to 110,000.