Nigel Farage's Latest Immigration Policy Dismissed As 'A Desperate Gimmick'

A threat by Reform UK to stop UK visas for people from a host of African and Caribbean countries have been dismissed as “a desperate gimmick”.

The right-wing party says it would introduce the crackdown for countries which want Britain to pay reparations for its part in the slave trade.

More than a dozen nations, including the likes of Ghana, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia and Barbados, have demanded the UK pay billions of pounds in compensation.

The United Nations also voted last month that former colonial powers should pay reparations.

In an article for the Daily Telegraph, Reform home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf said 3.8 million visas had been issued to countries seeking the compensation payments.

“The United Kingdom is not an ATM for ethnic grievances of the past, and we will no longer tolerate being ridiculed on the world stage,” he wrote.

“While countries like Jamaica, Nigeria and Ghana ramp up their demands for reparations, the Westminster establishment has rewarded them. Enough is enough.”

But a Labour spokesman said: “This is a desperate gimmick from Reform that would do nothing to restore order and control to Britain’s borders.

“Nobody will take Nigel Farage seriously on this when his party is full of opportunistic Tories who failed on immigration when they were in government.

“Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick presided over record levels of migration and all but lost control of the system - you can’t trust them now.”

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