Nigel Farage Brutally Fact-Checked 5 Times As He Tries To Defend Jim Ratcliffe's Migrant Claims

Matt Barbet and Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage was fact-checked four times in a toe-curling interview over Jim Ratcliffe’s controversial claim that the UK is being “colonised” by migrants.

Ratcliffe, the billionaire co-owner of Manchester United, triggered major backlash last week when he said: “You can’t have an economy with nine million people on benefits, and huge levels of immigrants coming in.

“The UK is being colonised by immigrants.”

He claimed: “The population of the UK was 58 million in 2020.