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UKIP leader Nigel Farage “insulted the intelligence of voters” as he warned yesterday that increasing the minimum wage would see Britain swamped by immigrants.
Speaking on a phone-in BBC Radio 5 Live programme, Mr Farage was asked by a caller whether he would raise the lowest legal pay rate.
“There is a problem with doing that. That is that if you increase the minimum wage, you may actually even attract more migrant labour,” he responded.
Farage and other Reform-ers keep pointing to Dubai’s immigration policy – but there migrants make up most of the population and do all the work without any rights, muses SOLOMON HUGHES
The Gala’s core message of working-class solidarity offers renewed hope and provides the antidote to the anti-worker policies of Reform UK, argues IAN LAVERY MP
