The Reform UK leader had announced plans for a minister for deportations if the party were in government earlier in the day.
Oliver Leader de Saxe reports.
Oliver Leader de Saxe reports.
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00:00Everyone put your signs up in the air please, above your heads, nice and high.
00:03Posing for the camera poised for Kent County Council elections next week.
00:09Nigel Farage's visit to the George in Sittingbourne wasn't to pull pints, but to pull in voters.
00:17With hopes riding high the Reform UK can capitalise on local defections earlier this year.
00:24There is no doubt I've got a path to Kent which we're doing very, very well.
00:29Very, very well. I think this is one of them.
00:32The results next Thursday are going to be very, very interesting.
00:36There are all sorts of crazy predictions being made.
00:40I'm not going to join that game, I don't know.
00:42We will win a lot of seats. How many? I don't know.
00:45Something big is happening.
00:46Swale was the finish line for Nigel Farage's whistle-stop campaign tour in Kent.
00:52Announcing earlier in Dover a brand new policy.
00:56With plans to establish a full-blown minister for deportations, if they were to be in government.
01:04You know, virtually no one that's come by boat into Dover has ever been removed anywhere.
01:10It's costing a seven billion a year.
01:11It's costing Kent County Council a huge amount of money as well.
01:14Not just national government.
01:15Would you, by leaving ECHR, being allowed to deport people without human rights nonsense and particle aid, right to the family life, you name it, all the excuses that get used are taken away.
01:27And then let's put somebody in government who is directly accountable for it.
01:31And with big talk of support for hospitality and shaking up Westminster, some locals seem to have been won over.
01:39Yeah, I mean, I think really a lot of people have been let down.
01:43I'm certainly one of them.
01:44Over the years I've been voting, the country seems to be going backwards.
01:47And there's a lot of disillusion and untrust, I think, within Parliament.
01:50So I'm looking for someone to take the lead and to take the reins and take charge of the country again and put the priority of the country first.
01:59But for some, Farage's national policy aspirations feel far removed from the struggles of local government.
02:08Well, I asked him what they stood for apart from immigration and Brexit, because people always think of those two things.
02:17And I'm concerned about special needs and needy people and support for them.
02:23And I have a feeling he's going to cut, cut, cut against him, which I'm really concerned about.
02:28Form UK clearly have their eyes on North Kent come polling day.
02:32Whether or not they have their eyes on the finer details of local issues is a different matter entirely.
02:41Oliver Ludo de Sacks for KMTV.