Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was interviewed on BBC Breakfast on Friday and also took questions from the public on BBC Radio 5 Live. He made a number of striking statistical claims on a host of subjects.'We have to provide a new home every two minutes in this country just to deal with net migration'Annual net migration - the difference between people coming to the UK and leaving - in the year to December 2023 was 685,000.
However, this kind of calculation does not take into account some existing homes being vacant, or how many people, on average, live in a household formed by new migrants. However, it is worth noting that dependants of a person on a skilled worker visa or a student visa are not entitled to claim benefits in the UK.'Any country that has a large postal ballot will always be open to fraud and intimidation and it happens in this country all the time'
'All I do know is that man produces about 3% of the CO2 produced in the world every year… and that it is nuts to call CO2 a poison'Scientists at Nasa told Reuters in March that human activity has been responsible for around 33% of the total CO2 in the atmosphere. The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change produces comprehensive reports on the state of knowledge about global warming, drawing on the work of the world's scientists.