Reform UK’s Richard Tice was fuming over the migrant crisis as he spoke to TalkTV host Mike Graham
Richard Tice erupted on TalkTV (Image: Getty)
TalkTV erupted into a furious migrant row as Reform UK MP Richard Tice hit out at illegal immigrants being granted “free heating, free accommodation and free food”. The politician lost his cool while being interviewed by anchor Mike Graham, insisting there’s only one way to stop the small boat arrivals from the English Channel.
Keir Starmer has just enacted a “one in, one out” deal with France, which will see migrants held in immigration removal centres until they can be returned to mainland Europe. As part of an 11-month pilot scheme, the UK will accept an equal number of asylum seekers who have not attempted Channel crossings and pass security and eligibility checks.
But Tice insists it’s not enough, branding the treaty “ludicrous”. He fumed: “It’s truly unbelievable. Where does this end?
“The irony now that you’ve got people in the UK, slightly ironically, saying they want to take a one-way ticket to France so they can apply and then they can come back and apply and get free accommodation, free heating and free food-“
Graham interrupted to chime in: “And a credit card!” as Tice nodded.
He went on: “It’s just utterly, utterly ludicrous. There’s only one way you stop this, and that is we leave the ECHR [European Convention of Human Rights], we rip up the Human Rights Act so these human rights lawyers can’t carry on with their ridiculous trade and we’ve got to pick up and safely take back – a variant of what the Australians did.
“We know it works, the Australians successfully did it and we know we’re entitled to do it under the United Nations 1982 Convention of the Law at Sea treaty, which I have read cover to cover.”
Mike Graham interrupted Tice (Image: TalkTV)
TalkTV branded the whole thing a “French farce”, though the first illegal immigrants arriving from France have now been detained.
Tice’s tirade comes just months after he suggested the same “one in, one out” approach to immigration, proposing a “net zero” policy and insisting legal migration could be “sortable”.
He added: “Now, a policy of net zero immigration, one in, one out, there’s about 400,000 people (who) leave the UK every year, you could welcome a similar number, and that will sort of ebb and flow.
“As long as it’s highly skilled, highly qualified, where we’ve got shortages, as we train our own people.”
