Reform continues to top the polls as Brits remain concerned about migration to the UK. At the start of the week, Nigel Farage held yet another London press conference in which he announced his plans to abolish indefinite leave to remain, make foreign nationals ineligible to claim benefits and introduce an English standards test – which would be retaken every five years. Crikey!
Former prime minister Boris Johnson was in the firing line too, despite the defection to Reform of his onetime ally Nadine Dorries. Farage’s party took aim at the ‘Boriswave’ – slamming the rise of immigration to the UK seen under Johnson’s premiership and accusing the ex-PM of having ‘betrayed the electorate’. But now Johnson has hit back, with the former Conservative leader adamant he can explain away the immigra