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   Immigration to blame for rise in rapes, Farage claims   
      
   Immigration is to blame for the sharp rise in rapes and sexual assaults, Nigel   
   Farage has claimed.   
      
   The Reform UK leader for the first time directly linked rising rates of sex   
   offences to “wholly irresponsible” increases in immigration.   
      
   “There is an alarming parallel between the extraordinary increase in the   
   number of reported rapes and the wholly irresponsible immigration and asylum   
   policies pursued by first Labour and then by Conservative Governments,” said   
   Mr Farage.   
      
   His comments came at a London press conference to announce that a top former   
   detective who spearheaded a series of high profile murder investigations will   
   join Reform UK as its adviser on police and crime.   
      
   Colin Sutton, a former Scotland Yard detective who led the investigation into   
   serial killer Levi Bellfield, is to help Reform develop its pledge to halve   
   crime in five years. It is part of a six-week campaign by the party over the   
   summer to promote its    
   policies on law and order.   
   Migration and sexual violence   
      
   Mr Farage said one of the themes of the campaign would be migrant crime in the   
   wake of the protests at The Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex. They were sparked   
   after an asylum seeker from Ethiopia living there was charged with sexual   
   assault, harassment and    
   inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity.   
      
   Data published on Monday also showed that 40 per cent of people charged for   
   sexual offences in London were foreign nationals, according to Metropolitan   
   Police data released under freedom of information laws.   
      
   The figures showed foreign nationals were behind 2,809 of the 7,798 alleged   
   crimes recorded in the capital since 2018 – despite making up less than a   
   quarter of the city’s population. The number of annual sexual offence   
   charges recorded in London has    
   almost doubled in that period.   
      
   Mr Farage said the summer campaign would focus on the “direct link”   
   between migrants including illegal Channel arrivals and “the rise of sexual   
   violence against women and girls in this country.”   
      
   “I don’t think any of the young men that cross the English Channel should   
   be free to walk our streets. I think not just the risk of getting involved in   
   the illegal economy [but also] the risk to girls, elderly women, the terrorism   
   risk,” he said.   
      
   “I don’t believe that anybody that crosses by a small boat should be able   
   to be put in a four star hotel, put into a house of multiple occupancy and   
   free to roam the streets. I go further than that. I don’t know that anybody   
   that crosses by that    
   route should ever be eligible to get refugee status.”   
   ‘Dystopian powers’   
      
   At the press conference, Reform also pledged that one of their first acts if   
   it won the election would be to repeal the Online Safety Act because of the   
   threat it posed to free speech.   
      
   Zia Yusuf, the head of the party’s DOGE unit, claimed that clauses within   
   the Bill gave unprecedented “dystopian” powers to ministers to be able to   
   order the regulator Ofcom to rewrite rules on free speech.   
      
   Mr Farage said a Reform government would ensure children were protected from   
   online harms to prevent a repeat of Molly Russell, the 14 year old who took   
   her life after being bombarded with suicide and self harm content. “But when   
   it comes to    
   legislation, the road to hell can be paved with good intentions,” he said.   
      
   “And if the result of an attempt by the last government to stop cases like   
   Molly Russell from happening finishes up with genuine open debate and free   
   speech able to be erased at the stroke of a pen from one minister without any   
   checks from Ofcom or    
   from anybody else, then we find ourselves in a worse place.”   
      
   He admitted his party did not have “a perfect answer” for what could   
   replace the Online Safety Act, but said his party had “more access to some   
   of the best tech brains, not just in the country but in the world” and would   
   “make a much better job    
   of it”.   
      
   Mr Farage also criticised an advert for a “Shariah law administrator”   
   vacancy promoted on a Government jobs website. “I didn’t think Sharia   
   courts were permitted under the law as it stands at the moment,” he said.   
      
   “This is the extent of the total surrender of the values that have built   
   this country, the Judeo Christian culture that underpins this country, and we   
   still have an established Church of England.   
      
   “We’ve always been tolerant of Jewish communities coming to settle in this   
   country, all sorts of faiths coming to settle in in this country. But it seems   
   when it comes to those of the Islamic faith that want to push and push and   
   push and in some    
   cases even have the ambition to overtake the existing culture.”   
      
   https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/07/28/nigel-farage-reform-speech/   
      
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