Nigel Farage says he 'would never suggest TOTAL ban' on Muslims
The former Ukip leader said he was in favour of tougher immigration rules and defended Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban, which was subsequently overturned by a US appeals court. The Brexit campaigner spoke on his LBC show in response to a recent poll of 10,000 Europeans, which showed more than half would back an immigration ban on people from Muslim countries. “Only 20 per cent, one in five out of this 10,000 survey, thought actually that maintaining some form of immigration from these countries made sense,” he said. “I have spent much of my political career arguing that immigration should be controlled.
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We need to vet carefully, but I myself would never ever suggest that we should totally ban people ever coming to Britain to settle from those countries Nigel Farage
“Fighting and saying we must be careful about allowing terrorists into our country and we need to vet carefully, but I myself would never ever suggest that we should totally ban people ever coming to Britain to settle from those countries. “All that Donald Trump tried to do was to put in a 90-day suspension whilst they worked out what the vetting should be.” The Chatham House survey showed 56 per cent agreed further migration from mainly Muslim countries should be stopped. In the same poll, almost half of British participants, 47 per cent, backed a total ban. The country backing a ban the strongest was Poland, with 71 per cent in favour.
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