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4 September 2015

Nigel Farage: welcoming refugees will lead to “migrant tide” of jihadists

Ukip's leader Nigel Farage claims that housing refugees will allow Isis to smuggle in "jihadists".

By Stephen Bush

(Photo By Photo: Getty Images/Carl Court)

Nigel Farage has warned that granting sanctuary to refugees could result in Britain being influenced by Isis. 

In remarks that were immediately condemned online, the Ukip leader said “When ISIS say they will flood the migrant tide with 500,000 of their own jihadists, we’d better listen”, before saying that Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, had done something “very dangerous” in attempting to host refugees, saying that she was “compounding the pull factors” that lead migrants to attempt the treacherous Mediterranean crossing.

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