Nigel Farage told GB News European leaders are now “apologisng” for “wrecking your cities” by encouraging record levels of immigration.
He said: “Not just in Britain, but across the rest of Europe, governments are in total panic. They have pursued open door immigration policies, some of them, like Sweden, to an absolutely lunatic degree.
“And of course, much of was this encouraged, if you remember, by the German Chancellor of the time, Angela Merkel.
“What the European leaders are now saying is, Sorry for wrecking your cities and ruining your lives. We’re now going to do something about it. And it seems the British Labour government is on the same track.
“David Lammy did go to Strasbourg today to talk about the European Convention on Human Rights and its interpretation by the court in that city. At the heart of this is Article Three of the Convention, which is about sending people back to countries where they could be tortured.
“Perhaps more controversially is Article Eight, the right to a family life. And we know British judges have said, well, you know, the guy’s got a cat, he has to stay.
“In terms of how much that can shift and change, from what I can make of it 27 countries were in favour of a change of interpretation, but 18 countries weren’t.
“This has got nowhere today. Basically, governments across Europe are terrified of new centre-right parties. That’s what this is all about.
“Isn’t this a bit like the debate around the EU: every single government from 1974, in every single election promised they’d reform the Common Agricultural Policy. They never, ever did.
“The logic with this would be if it’s unreformable, we have to decide to stay or leave.”
