NIGEL Farage insists Britons will receive higher wages under his plans to stop thousands of migrants coming into the country.
He said, under a Reform government, cheap, foreign labour “is over” — lining up a pay rise and skills boost for other workers.
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The party leader hit out at the influx of migrants in Boris Johnson’s premiership, saying the former PM betrayed Brexit voters.
He said: “This is not what they wanted.”
“Mass, unskilled migration has driven, in many cases, the minimum wage to become the maximum wage.
“Under our proposals, would pay go up? Yes, it would go up a bit. Would our proposals help train British people for jobs? It would.”
Reform’s head of policy Zia Yusuf conceded “there will be some businesses who do have to pay more for that labour.”
Mr Farage pledged to abolish permanent settlement for overseas nationals, saying it was a “timebomb” that will wreck UK finances.
Estimates show that 800,000 migrants are expected to qualify for Indefinite Leave to Remain — the right to settle and access welfare — in the next four years.
Reform plans to force foreign nationals to apply to stay on a five-year rolling basis, with higher income thresholds, tougher English requirements and no welfare access.
But it emerged that 770,000 EU citizens who currently claim Universal Credit would still get benefits under a Reform government.
Chair of the Labour Party Anna Turley MP said: “This destroys Farage’s claims it covers all foreign-born nationals.
“Yet again, they’re chasing headlines with no plan.”
