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Carol Vorderman tears apart Farage’s ‘net zero’ immigration claims

The former Countdown star was on hand to correct Farage's maths during a recent episode of Have I Got News For You.

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2024-06-10 08:51
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Carol Vorderman expertly tore apart Nigel Farage’s claim that a Reform UK government would create “net zero immigration” after the ex-UKIPer made concessions over the number of skilled workers the party would allow in.

Farage hit the campaign trail with eye-catching promises to cap the number of people entering the UK to live and work in line with the number of people emigrating, keeping the population stable.

He said that the UK should admit far fewer unskilled immigrants, saying: “We don’t need any – we literally don’t need any.”

This would create job “shortages,” Mr Farage said, which would “mean that wages would go up and we would start to encourage people to learn skills rather than heading off to university”.

But pressed on whether there would remain a need for skilled workers, the Reform UK candidate for Clacton said there would have to be some concessions, which could equate to some 600,000 all told.

As Ian Hislop pointed out here – backed by Vorderman’s quick math – that’s a far sight from the net zero figure advertised.

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