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Nigel Farage says charities that help asylum seekers get to UK should be prosecuted

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Nigel Farage says charities that help asylum seekers get to UK should be prosecuted

Reform leader did not say who should be targeted but party figures have been critical of small boat rescues by RNLICharities and volunteers who help asylum seekers get to the UK should face potential criminal prosecution, Nigel Farage has said in an interview with a rightwing US podcaster.While the Reform UK leader did not specify which organisations should be targeted, he and other senior Reform figures have been heavily critical of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), which has faced a campaign of intimidation for its work in rescuing asylum seekers in the Channel. Continue readin

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