The former UKIP leader turned president of Reform UK denied that he was trying to 'alienate' Muslim communities across Britain in a clash with Robert Peston on Wednesday night.
Nigel Farage has defended his comments claiming that young Muslims 'do not subscribe to British values' - after being accused of alienating them by Robert Peston.
He was criticised across the political spectrum: Tory minister Steve Baker called his comments 'ignorant and offensive' while Plaid Cymru's leader Rhun ap Iorwerth labelled them 'outright Islamophobia'. 'And I'll tell you who the most worried people are - the most worried people are British Muslims, working, bringing up their kids, paying their taxes.Asked for the evidence of this happening in Muslim communities, Mr Farage pointed to voting in Burnley, Bradford and Leeds in May's local elections.
But he was challenged on that polling by Richard Madeley , who said the methodology of the polling had been flawed Read More 'It's a big no! Go to hell!' Nigel Farage refuses to sign 'woke' BBC diversity and monitoring form asking him about his sexuality and ethnicity before appearing on Question Time He claimed polling by JL Partners, commissioned by the Henry Jackson Society, backed up his claim.
GMB's Richard Madeley fired back that polling carried out in 2018 by IPSOS Mori found 85 per cent of British Muslims felt they truly belong to Britain. Rishi Sunak yesterday ruled out an electoral pact with Reform UK after Nigel Farage suggested that he could stand down candidates to boost Tory fortunesMr Farage said it was possible to 'argue about numbers and statistics' but it was 'undoubtedly true' that there is an increasing number of young people in Britain who 'don't only not subscribe to our values - they openly support Hamas'.
His comments on Sky News were raised by Angela Rayner as she met with members of the Muslim community in her constituency of Ashton-under-Lyne later on Sunday.He hit back at her in a speech in Dover, claiming she was 'begging, begging a group of Muslim leaders to please vote Labour, you will have noticed not a single woman in the room'.
Mr Farage launched Reform UK's election campaign on Tuesday with a claim that Britain was in the middle of a 'national security emergency' - again referring to young men with 'radical anti-British views'.
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