A woman threw a milkshake in the face of populist Nigel Farage at the premiere of his campaign as a parliamentary candidate

Nigel Farage throws himself into the British electoral fray this Tuesday with his proposal without a net “Zero Net Migration” In the United Kingdom, the populist leader of Reform UK stole the spotlight PremiereThe entry into the game was eclipsed by the entry of Rishi Sunak and Labour’s Keir Starmer just hours before tonight’s first televised debate between the two leaders. The Third Man that could contribute to a major and humiliating defeat Tory Voting on July 4th

However, Farage suffered a humiliation in his own face and in the eventful start to his campaign as MP candidate for Clacton when a woman threw a milkshake in his path which hit him directly. A few minutes earlier, after drinking a pint Pub Reform UK leader Wetherspoon promised his followers to become “A very big fuss” For Conservative and Labour at Westminster when elected.

Farage announced on the BBC as he unveiled his controversial immigration proposal, “We cannot continue as we were, we have to limit numbers.” “The population explosion has reduced our quality of life,” he said as he laid the numbers on the table and declared that the Conservative Party had “betrayed” the British with its promise to “put control behind the borders” Brexit

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Despite the end of freedom of movement, the United Kingdom set for 2022 Record 764,000 net immigrants. Last year the number fell slightly to 685,000 (1.2 million immigrants came into the country compared to 532,000 foreign nationals). Farage’s simplified proposal involves nothing more and nothing less than equalizing inflows and outflows. Or what is the same: closing the doors to more than 600,000 immigrants per year.

“This could mean in some areas Labor shortages” Farage admitted under his breath when assessing the impact on the labour market and the economy in general. “But it might also mean that wages are going to go up, and we have to encourage Britons to buy skills instead. Go to university and study social sciences.

“The British are angry at the way the Conservatives and Labour have dealt with the immigration issue,” Farage warned in the paper’s pages. The Daily TelegraphThe one where he exercised his Euroscepticism boris johnson“There is also deep resentment How bad public services have become,

Disruption of the campaign

Faraz’s emergence in the campaign as a full-fledged candidate, not a full-fledged candidate Alienation By this week, it has completely changed the dynamics of the campaign and spread panic across the Conservative Party. One of Rishi Sunak’s aims in calling the election in the summer was to try to oust the new leader of Reform UK, who reaches 12% in some surveys

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Sunak’s announcement on Tuesday that parliament would set an annual “cap” on visas for the next five years was actually backtracked. Premiere The measure is referred to as “Bolt of immigration” To ensure that the situation is once again “sustainable”, but avoids getting your fingers stuck with the maximum amount of net immigration.

Labour’s Keir Starmer criticised the measure as “a cap without a cap” but also refused to set a target number. “The Tory They have lost control of immigration and created the chaos we have now,” said Starmer, who predicted a Labor government would impose End of the Rwandan plan Deporting asylum seekers to an African country and strengthening police measures and cooperation with Europe to prevent human trafficking gangs.

Crossings across the English Channel have increased again this year, with more than 10,000 crossings so far, higher than the figure recorded at this point in the record year of 2022 (with a total of 45,746 crossings). Despite the decrease in 2023 (29,437), the flow of irregular immigrants has increased again, which raises questions Alleged deterrent effect of deportation To Rwanda.

Nigel Farage has also openly questioned the Rwanda plan. The leader of Reform UK, a supporter of tough measures, declared: “The planes will never fly and that’s one of the reasons the elections have been brought forward.” Abandonment of the European Court of Human Rights and the use of the Royal Marines “to return migrants to French shores.”

grew up eventually leading to his decision to stand as a candidate for MP at Westminster, despite being prick On seven previous occasions (although he had been an MEP for two decades), Farage had anticipated his intention Tory. “Millions of voters feel Betrayed by conservativesHowever the people I fought with to achieve Brexit remain in that party,” the Reform UK leader declared. Brand “The Tories are bankrupt, and what we are trying to do is establish ourselves as the voice of opposition to the Labour Party.”

Faraz gave the example of Canadian stephen harper“who was elected as a deputy of the Reform Party to modernise the Conservative Party from within and become prime minister between 2006 and 2015”. “I do not want to join the Conservative Party,” he insisted. “The best thing we can do is to seize it and join a part of the conservatives with us.”