LBC Presenter Fact Checks Nigel Farage's Claim Small Boats Have Made UK More Dangerous For Women And Girls

Ben Kentish and Nigel FarageA presenter on LBC delivered a brutal fact check following claims by senior Reform UK politicians that the small boats crisis means the UK is no longer a “safe haven” for women and girls.Andrea Jenkyns, the party’s mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, claimed she no longer feels safe walking the streets of Britain.Her colleague, Reform MP Sarah Pochin, said illegal migrants put women “at risk of sexual assault”.Party leader Nigel Farage has also claimed that asylum seekers coming to the UK in small boats are a national security risk, and made disputed claims that they are more likely to commit sexual offences than British men.But in a monologue on his LBC show, Ben Kentish pointed out that high numbers of sexual offences were taking place in the UK long before the small boats crisis began.Referring to Farage, Kentish said: “More and more now, politicians who are on course, if the polls suggest are going to be our next prime minister, try and tell us that Britain was a ‘safe haven’ for women and girls before the small boats started coming.“Go back 10 years, before the small boats became a real issue. How many sexual offences were recorded in this country in 2015? I’ll give you a guess. 103,614 in one year. Almost 35,000 reports of rapes, 68,000 reports of other sexual offences.“This is the country that Nigel Farage thinks was a safe haven for women and girls. He wasn’t talking about it back then, was he? He wasn’t banging this drum passionately in defence of women and girls and their safety back then.“But as soon as it’s asylum seekers ‘oh it’s outrageous, we’re not a safe haven any more’. We never were, Nigel. You just didn’t seem to take much notice of it when the perpetrators were white. But suddenly now it’s a couple of asylum seekers that are accused of it, suddenly everyone cares about violence against women and girls. It’s desperate stuff.”"We never were Nigel... you just didn't take much notice when the perpetrators were white."@BenKentish digs out some figures to rubbish Nigel Farage’s claim that Britain was a 'safe haven' for women before small boats started coming. pic.twitter.com/YOytSuhRdY— LBC (@LBC) August 12, 2025Related...Emmanuel Macron Blames Brexiteers For Small Boats Crisis After Striking Migrant Deal With Starmer'That's Failure': Sky News Presenter Slams Labour Minister Over Huge Rise In Small Boat NumbersNicola Sturgeon Does Not Hold Back As She Takes Down 'Odious' Nigel Farage's Character

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