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Nigel Farage will cease issuing visas to international nationals whose Governments are demanding trillions in slavery reparations.

Reform UK mentioned they won’t “allow Britain to be slapped around and ridiculed on the world stage” as a bunch of Caribbean and African nations declare they need to be compensated.

Mr Farage’s social gathering mentioned Jamaica, Barbados, Nigeria and Kenya are amongst these formally demanding extraordinary sums of cash.

The United Nations final month voted to insist that Britain and different former colonial powers ought to pay reparations for slavery, with a UN choose claiming the quantity owed may very well be within the area of £18trillion.

The decision, tabled on the UN General Assembly by Ghana, mentioned nations corresponding to Britain ought to now start “good-faith dialogue on reparatory justice, including a full and formal apology, measures of restitution, compensation”.

But Reform’s dwelling affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf mentioned: “A growing number of countries are demanding reparations from Britain.

“These countries ignore the fact that Britain made huge sacrifices to be the first major power to outlaw slavery and enforce this prohibition.

“Astonishingly, of the countries demanding reparations, Tory and Labour governments issued 3.8 million visas to their nationals and sent them a staggering £6.6 billion in foreign aid over the last 2 decades.

By backing the resolution, the UN members affirmed “the importance of addressing historical wrongs affecting Africans and people of African descent”, and accepted that “claims for reparations represent a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs”.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres even mentioned that the wealth of many Western nations was “built on stolen lives and stolen labour”.

A UN choose sensationally claimed the UK is more likely to owe greater than £18tn in reparations for its historic function in slavery.

British authorities have been contributors within the commerce, which noticed hundreds of thousands of Africans enslaved and compelled to work, particularly on plantations within the Caribbean, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

But Britain performed a key function in ending the slave commerce by way of Parliament’s passage of a regulation to abolish slavery in 1833.

Reform UK has vowed to battle the marketing campaign, insisting “we will not allow British taxpayers to be insulted and their money wasted”.

Party officers added: “We are putting these countries on notice.

“From this point, should any country formally demand reparations from Britain, a Reform government will respond by immediately halting the issuance of new visas to their nationals. We have already committed to scrapping foreign aid.

“A United Kingdom with Nigel Farage as Prime Minister will have a backbone, and stand up for our national interest.”

Conservative chief Kemi Badenoch slammed Labour for remaining silent throughout the controversial UN vote.

She raged: “Russia, China and Iran vote with others to demand trillions in reparations from UK taxpayers…and the Labour government abstain.

“Britain led the fight to end slavery.

“Why didn’t Starmer’s representative vote against this?

“Ignorance…or cowardice? We shouldn’t be paying for a crime we helped eradicate and still fight today.”

The Foreign Office mentioned the UK is not going to pay repatriations.

A spokesperson mentioned: “The transatlantic slave trade was abhorrent. We recognise its horrific impacts and the ongoing strength of feeling it arouses.

“We are committed to deepening respectful, long-term partnerships with African countries, rooted in mutual respect, that deliver real change for people’s lives.

“The UK’s position on reparations is clear – we will not pay them.”