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Nigel Farage: Jim Ratcliffe's colonisation comments were 'correct'
Nigel Farage defended Jim Ratcliffe's incorrect UK population growth claim, linking immigration to service pressures despite official data showing a 2.8 million rise since 2020.
- Reform UK chief Nigel Farage defended Jim Ratcliffe's claim in an X video on Thursday, repeating the population rise from 58 million to 70 million stated in the Sky News interview on Wednesday.
- Official figures show the population changed differently; the 58 million figure relates to mid-1995 and the 12 million increase since mid-1991 over 35 years, not since 2020.
- DWP figures show 8,400,344 UC claimants in Britain plus 233,170 in Northern Ireland, with 2.2m in work and 4.2m not required to work, totaling 6.2m either not working or not required to.
- Farage argued that fact-checkers found Ratcliffe’s population claim was incorrect, amid political pressure from Keir Starmer and others, to defend his statement.
- Long-Term policy choices such as austerity and the sell-off of council homes contribute to rising rents amid a 4.3 million homes backlog and only 3031 social sector homes started in Scotland last year.
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