Ben Habib has told GB News that some legal migrants should be paid to leave Britain in a major repatriation scheme.
Speaking exclusively to this broadcaster, the former deputy leader of Reform said migrants that are on benefits should be “encouraged to go home… either by encouraging their governments to take them back or paying them money to go”.
He continued: “Whatever that price is, however eye rolling big it might seem, it would be a drop in the ocean by comparison to the cost of having them here in perpetuity.”
The outspoken politician also supported mass deportations of illegal migrants, in contrast with Nigel Farage who told this broadcaster last year that the policy is not possible.
In September 2024 the Reform Party leader told GB News: “I’m not going to get dragged down the route of mass deportations or anything like that.”
Discussing whether all illegal migrants should be deported from Britain, Mr Farage said: “It’s impossible to do, literally impossible to do, but do we have to begin the process, yes.”
Meanwhile, Mr Habib appeared to break with his former leader, saying: “We need to, needless to say, or perhaps needful to say, deport all illegal migrants [and] have a program for repatriation of those who are here legally.”
“And actually, I would have a moratorium, an absolute moratorium on the right to for indefinite leave to remain, and a moratorium on handing out British citizenship to anyone.”
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