Farage takes credit for Govt's tough immigration stance

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Reform UK leader commends the prime minister on his new plans to reduce migration to the UK, saying he will ''praise him to the heavens!'' if the PM succeeds in stopping the boats. It comes as Sir Keir Starmer sets out plans to significantly reduce net migration and Labour seeks to head off the electoral threat from Reform UK. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Remember that in the general election, the five big priorities that Keir Starmer had,

00:03immigration wasn't even mentioned.

00:06He spent most of his career campaigning for open borders,

00:10wholly unconcerned about the massive rise in the British population

00:14as a result of immigration policies that the Blair government began.

00:18And the Conservatives accelerated, and all he's doing today is responding to the reform vote.

00:23He's absolutely terrified, and that's why we saw that press conference this morning.

00:27I don't think there's an ounce of sincerity in it.

00:32The Labour Party haven't cared about immigration for decades and decades and decades,

00:37but they're in a blind panic because they realise this is now above the National Health Service

00:42as an issue of concern to British voters.

00:45Of course! I mean, much of the rhetoric that we heard today,

00:48the sort of things I've been saying for nearly a quarter of a century,

00:51the question is, does he have the will to actually carry it through?

00:55And I think what you'll find are many voices in the Labour Party

00:59who will start to disagree with what the Prime Minister said today.

01:03Labour, a large chunk of the Labour movement does not believe in borders at all.

01:09I'd love to see no population increase through immigration.

01:13Yeah, people get work permits, they come, they leave,

01:16just as British people can go and work around the world.

01:18The problem is that through family reunion, through the student loophole,

01:23which he hasn't really closed at all today,

01:25the numbers just go up exponentially, hundreds of thousands a year.

01:28I don't see him cracking that.

01:30If he picks up reform policies and succeeds and stops the boats coming,

01:34I will praise him to the heavens.

01:36And it belongs to our frozen heavens.

01:38Yeah, it will.

01:38According to our fellow father,

01:39Yes.

01:40Thank you!

01:40Bless you.

01:42Please!

01:42Thank you!

01:43Bye-bye.

01:43Thank you!

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