Reform aim to weaponise the ‘Boriswave’ |
With three weeks to go until the local elections, Reform are back campaigning on their favourite subject: migration. Having talked up deportations in the run-up to last year’s contests, the party is hoping to rerun the same playbook to achieve similar success. At a press conference this morning, Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf unveiled a new 21-page document which claimed that the so-called ‘Boriswave’ – referring to the 1.6 million migrants who arrived between 2020 and 2024 – would cost £622 billion in real terms. This, they claimed, means £20,000 per UK family.
Reform plans to abolish the status known as indefinite leave to remain (ILR), which allows those who have lived here for more than five years to receive benefits and apply for citizenship. Their argument is that a commitment to abolishing ILR needs to be made now, before the initial arrivals of the........