Reform UK leader Nigel Farage slammed the latest net migration figures as "horrendous," despite a 20% drop from 906,000 to 728,000 in the year to June 2024. Farage argued the numbers remain too high and predicted the Conservatives wouldn’t be "forgiven" for their record. He also criticised Labour over a 36% rise in asylum system costs to £5.38bn. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well, I think we've timed this press conference rather well, given that at 9.30 this morning
00:04we got the latest immigration figures, which are horrendous. Horrendous if you want to
00:12get a GP appointment. Horrendous if you want to travel around Britain's motorways. Horrendous
00:19if you want your kids or grandkids to ever get a foot onto the housing ladder. Horrendous
00:25in terms of producing very disjointed societies and communities. And the message is pretty
00:32clear. Three quarters of a million in the last year. And don't believe the lies and
00:39spin that it's a 20% reduction from the year before. It isn't. The year before's figures
00:45have been raised now in two instalments by 230,000. So let's get it into our heads in
00:532023, under a Conservative government, nearly one million net people came into our country.
01:03This after manifestos in 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019, promising in the first three they'd
01:11reduce the numbers to tens of thousands a year, and in the last one a substantial reduction.
01:17I have had enough of being lied to by the Conservative Party. I don't believe they'll
01:22be forgiven at any point in the next few years for what they have done. Of course with
01:28Labour it's even worse. And I don't think smashing the gangs is going to work. It's
01:34perhaps worth just mentioning briefly that the asylum bill, we've had those figures this
01:40morning, that has gone up by 36% in one year to 5.38 billion. And that doesn't even include
01:49the daily cost of what is happening in the English Channel with drones, with border
01:54force and with the massive processing centre at Manston.