Nigel Farage spoke to the media in an explosive interview hours after Britain recorded its highest net migration figures in history. Former conservative politician Nigel Farage has claimed that post-Brexit net immigration into the U.K. would have fallen below 50,000 a year if he had been in charge, and refused to rule out a return to frontline politics to take on what he described as a dishonest, establishment, globalist governing Conservative party that has failed Brexit voters.

The former Brexit Party and UKIP leader spoke hours after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released the latest immigration figures, which showed net migration had spiralled to 606,000 in the last calendar year — the highest figure ever recorded despite Britain leaving the European Union and supposedly taking back control of its borders.

He told interviewer Beth Rigby that the Conservative party had never been serious about implementing the socially conservative pledges its multiple leaders had made during successive general elections. He took aim at former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who instead of enacting a new immigration policy to reduce the numbers which Brexit voters had expected, had relaxed wage thresholds and work visa requirements and overseen the largest explosion of mass immigration into Britain ever recorded.

‘A lot of this is down to a breach of trust between what has been promised at elections and what has been delivered,’ Farage told viewers. ‘We’ve now become addicted to cheap, unskilled, foreign imported labour,’ Farage added, insisting it was high time this policy of mass immigration was reversed.

If they had put me in charge of (tackling migration), we’d have got to 50,000 a year, but they didn’t,’ Farage replied stoically. ‘There is nobody more disappointed than me at what this government has done. I would have loved to have been in a position of responsibility, but I wasn’t,’ he added.

‘I look at that 2019 Tory manifesto, the way it was put to the people, and frankly it was a big lie,’ he added. Analysing the current political landscape in Britain, Farage claimed ‘the gap between Westminster and where people are is even bigger than it was 10 years ago’ and warned that there will soon be another insurgency in British politics.

‘Whether it will be Reform, whether it will be me, whether we get a new Nick Griffin (former leader of the British National Party). Maybe we get genuinely the far-right into British politics, (but) something has got to change.’

Farage was an eternal thorn in the side of the U.K. Conservative Party throughout his career in frontline politics. As UKIP leader during the 2015 general election, his party managed to amass 3.9 million votes — 12.6 percent of the vote share — however, due to the first-past-the-post electoral system in Britain the party won just one parliamentary seat out of 650 available. After the vote, Farage went on to found the pop-up Brexit Party ahead of the final European parliamentary elections in Britain and stormed to victory as the largest U.K. party in Brussels.

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