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Immigration to blame for rise in rapes, Farage claims
Immigration is to blame for the sharp rise in rapes and sexual assaults, Nigel Farage has claimed.
The Reform UK leader for the first time directly linked rising rates of sex offences to rCLwholly irresponsiblerCY increases in immigration.
rCLThere is an alarming parallel between the extraordinary increase in the number of reported rapes and the wholly irresponsible immigration and asylum policies pursued by first Labour and then by Conservative Governments,rCY said Mr Farage.
His comments came at a London press conference to announce that a top former detective who spearheaded a series of high profile murder investigations will join Reform UK as its adviser on police and crime.
Colin Sutton, a former Scotland Yard detective who led the investigation into serial killer Levi Bellfield, is to help Reform develop its pledge to halve crime in five years. It is part of a six-week campaign by the party over the summer to promote its policies on law and order.
Migration and sexual violence
Mr Farage said one of the themes of the campaign would be migrant crime in the wake of the protests at The Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex. They were sparked after an asylum seeker from Ethiopia living there was charged with sexual assault, harassment and inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity.
Data published on Monday also showed that 40 per cent of people charged for sexual offences in London were foreign nationals, according to Metropolitan Police data released under freedom of information laws.
The figures showed foreign nationals were behind 2,809 of the 7,798 alleged crimes recorded in the capital since 2018 rCo despite making up less than a quarter of the cityrCOs population. The number of annual sexual offence charges recorded in London has almost doubled in that period.
Mr Farage said the summer campaign would focus on the rCLdirect linkrCY between migrants including illegal Channel arrivals and rCLthe rise of sexual violence against women and girls in this country.rCY
rCLI donrCOt think any of the young men that cross the English Channel should be free to walk our streets. I think not just the risk of getting involved in the illegal economy [but also] the risk to girls, elderly women, the terrorism risk,rCY he said.
rCLI donrCOt believe that anybody that crosses by a small boat should be able to be put in a four star hotel, put into a house of multiple occupancy and free to roam the streets. I go further than that. I donrCOt know that anybody that crosses by that route should ever be eligible to get refugee status.rCY
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At the press conference, Reform also pledged that one of their first acts if it won the election would be to repeal the Online Safety Act because of the threat it posed to free speech.
Zia Yusuf, the head of the partyrCOs DOGE unit, claimed that clauses within the Bill gave unprecedented rCLdystopianrCY powers to ministers to be able to order the regulator Ofcom to rewrite rules on free speech.
Mr Farage said a Reform government would ensure children were protected from online harms to prevent a repeat of Molly Russell, the 14 year old who took her life after being bombarded with suicide and self harm content. rCLBut when it comes to legislation, the road to hell can be paved with good intentions,rCY he said.
rCLAnd if the result of an attempt by the last government to stop cases like Molly Russell from happening finishes up with genuine open debate and free speech able to be erased at the stroke of a pen from one minister without any checks from Ofcom or from anybody else, then we find ourselves in a worse place.rCY
He admitted his party did not have rCLa perfect answerrCY for what could replace the Online Safety Act, but said his party had rCLmore access to some of the best tech brains, not just in the country but in the worldrCY and would rCLmake a much better job of itrCY.
Mr Farage also criticised an advert for a rCLShariah law administratorrCY vacancy promoted on a Government jobs website. rCLI didnrCOt think Sharia courts were permitted under the law as it stands at the moment,rCY he said.
rCLThis is the extent of the total surrender of the values that have built this country, the Judeo Christian culture that underpins this country, and we still have an established Church of England.
rCLWerCOve always been tolerant of Jewish communities coming to settle in this country, all sorts of faiths coming to settle in in this country. But it seems when it comes to those of the Islamic faith that want to push and push and push and in some cases even have the ambition to overtake the existing culture.rCY
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/07/28/nigel-farage-reform-speech/
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