Nigel Farage has said charities and volunteers that help asylum seekers reach the UK should face criminal prosecution, in remarks made during an interview with a US rightwing podcaster.
01Summary
- 01Farage told Benny Johnson that NGOs helping asylum seekers had “aided and abetted criminality”.
- 02He said the arrival of asylum seekers on small boats was “literally an invasion of people who could cause us enormous harm”.
- 03Farage did not name any charity, but Reform figures have previously criticised the RNLI, which rescues some asylum seekers in the Channel.
- 04He also linked migration to Muslim asylum seekers, and said European countries had a greater migration problem than the US.
02Why it matters
The remarks could intensify pressure on charities and volunteers involved in rescue and support work. They also show how migration has become a central and increasingly hardline issue in Reform UK’s messaging.
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