Farage goes after Boris

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🗓️ 22 September 2025

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Nigel Farage has unveiled his most radical immigration plan yet – scrapping indefinite leave to remain for migrants – in a move designed to reverse the so-called 'Boriswave.' James Heale explains how this would affect hundreds of thousands already living in the UK, why the party claims it could save £250 billion, and whether any of it is remotely feasible.

Meanwhile, Keir Starmer has formally recognised Palestine as a state, a decision hailed by many Labour MPs but criticised by others as diplomatically reckless. And, to round off a busy political Monday morning, the government has approved a second runway at Gatwick – but will it really boost growth before the next election?

Lucy Dunn speaks to James Heale and Tim Shipman.

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0:39.3	risk. Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm Lucy Dunn and today I'm joined by James
0:49.5	Heel and Tim Shipman. There's a lot to talk about today from Prime Minister Kirstarmer
0:53.8	finally recognising
0:54.9	Palestinian statehood to the approval of a new runway at Gatwick Airport. But first, let's focus
1:00.0	on Nigel Farage's latest press conference. He has set out his party's plans to scrap indefinite
1:06.0	leave to remain for migrants in an attack on what reform has referred to as the Boris Wave,
1:11.9	referencing the huge influx of migrants to the UK seen after Brexit. James, what exactly is reform proposing
1:18.0	and is the party's new plans for legal migration actually workable? Well, this is going to be
1:23.2	a debate that's going to be playing out over the next coming weeks and months. It's a very radical
1:27.5	scheme to try and reverse the changes that came up during the Boris Johnson era. And obviously,
1:32.4	that is why Nigel Farage keeps using the phrase the Boris wave and explaining that that's going
1:37.5	to be something he wants to reverse. They're presenting it, a very radical policy in quite
1:41.0	restorationist terms. But actually, of course, this would mean that those
1:44.5	who applied here, you know, and CUB here under the existing system would have to apply for new
1:49.3	citizenship, that we have much salary threshold. And potentially this is going to affect many hundreds
1:54.7	of thousands of people across the country. For reform, this policy has a couple of key aspects,
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