'That's Quite A Flip-Flop': BBC Presenter Burns Nigel Farage Over Deportation U-Turn

Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, speaks at an event in London in May.A BBC presenter accused Nigel Farage of performing “quite a flip-flop” as he prepares to unveil his plan to deport anyone who enters the UK illegally.Jon Kay pointed out that the Reform UK leader said just a year ago that doing so was “impossible” so it was “pointless” to even discuss it.In a remarkable U-turn, Farage will today announce that a Reform government would set up a “UK deportation command” if it wins the next election to remove all illegal immigrants from the country.But asked by GB news last year if he supported the deportation of illegal immigrants, Farage said: “It’s impossible to do. Literally impossible to do.“For us, at the moment, it’s a political impossibility.”Asked if it was his “ambition” to do so, he replied: “No ... it’s pointless even going there. It’s a political impossibility. We simply can’t do it.”On BBC Breakfast this morning, Kay reminded former Reform chairman Zia Yusuf of Farage’s previous view.He said: “Only a year ago, Nigel Farage was asked about removing all illegal immigrants. Back then he said it is ‘impossible’ to remove all illegal immigrants. ‘It is a political impossibility’.“And then he was asked if it was an ambition for Reform UK and he said ‘no, it’s pointless even going there. It is a political impossibility, We simply can’t do it’. So what has changed in a year?”Yusuf replied: “What’s changed is we’ve done the work. Nigel didn’t say it was impossible, he said it was a political impossibility. His view on that has decisively changed because of the facts on the ground and because of the fact that we’ve now done the work.”But Kay told him: “That’s quite a flip-flop, isn’t it, by Mr Farage? To say 12 months ago it’s politically impossible, and now he’s saying we’re going to do it?”Yusuf said: “We’ve done the work and Nigel has taken the view that not only can this be done, it must be done. As Winston Churchill said, he who never changes his mind never changes anything.”Related...Nigel Farage Says Reform Will Deport All Illegal Immigrants. But Last Year He Said It Was 'Impossible''A Bull***t Artist': Kemi Badenoch In Fresh Foul-Mouthed Blast At Nigel FarageExclusive: Keir Starmer To Launch Autumn Fightback Against Farage's Claim 'Britain Is Broken'

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