“The man accused of killing Ann Widdecombe has now been charged with a terror offence, and Nigel Farage was one of the alleged targets”, the BBC News at Ten began last Friday night.
“Also tonight, two Iranian nationals who arrived on small boats have been charged with terror offences in an alleged plot targeting Manchester’s Jewish community”, it continued.
All this in the same week as the apparent foiled attack on RAF Fairford, many details of which are yet to emerge, as well as stories about potential Russian activity near our undersea cables, to say nothing of alleged Chinese espionage at our universities.
That’s not all. In the past week we have learned about a top Hamas operative who came to Britain in 2015 and was granted asylum, back when Theresa May was home secretary and current shadow justice minister Nick Timothy was her special adviser.
That man, whose identity is protected by the authorities, is accused of plotting terror attacks across Europe from London.
And there’s even more.
On Saturday, it emerged that Hamam al-Hammami, the Omani citizen who tried to hijack a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv last week, had studied at a British university. Is it any wonder that even the citizens of Muslim countries like the UAE increasingly no longer want to send their children to study in Britain, given the risk of radicalisation here?
Seven major national security issues in just over a week. The result of 14 years of Tory misgovernment and national security malpractice, as well as a couple of years of Labour idleness.
It must now be accepted that the Westminster “uniparty” consensus is no longer just a threat to our economy, or individual rights, or, as we found out from the Labour conference last week in Liverpool, to your pension.
No, my argument is more existential than that. The Westminster consensus on national security is a genuine threat to Britons’ lives. I’ve been warning about this for well over a decade.
In 2015, a major terrorist attack on the Bataclan theatre and at the Stade de France in Paris left 130 dead and nearly 500 injured.
Following the attack, I was due to speak at an event in Basingstoke as part of the Say No to the EU tour. Reflecting on what had happened, I warned: “We’ve reached a point where we have to admit to ourselves in Britain and France and much of the rest of Europe that mass immigration and multicultural division has for now been a failure.”
In that same speech, I added that the open borders policy and vast migrant wave into Europe that year meant that, slowly but surely, many who wanted to harm us would end up on our shores.
It was hardly my only intervention on this. I knew that if the then-Conservative government didn’t do anything, we’d end up in the national security emergency we now find ourselves in.
To my dismay, Westminster ignored me. But I tried again. In 2017, I highlighted the Iranian threat via illegal migration. Still nothing. Then, six years ago, I warned of the small boats invasion in the Channel, often taking to sea to document the horrors myself. Again, I was dismissed.
In 2023, I reported on terrorists coming into Britain on small boats, and in 2025, in the House of Commons, I raised concerns over Iranian terrorists at Dover.
Every time - whether it was a Tory or a Labour government - I found myself banging my head against a brick wall.
Finally, in April and May of this year, I cited sources that had told me Iranian terrorists were already in our midst. I remember the howls of execration from the green benches of the Commons.
MPs shouted “shame”. The Tories presided over the largest influx of mass migration this country has ever seen. But shame on me? The Labour Party has no actual interest in stopping illegal boat crossings. At its recent party conference, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood committed to creating new “legal” routes to Britain for migrants from Afghanistan and Palestine.
No. Shame on them.
Back in 2016, the Tory government’s Casey review determined that ethnic segregation was worsening in areas of Britain. But the Conservative Party refused to address the matter for fear of being called “racist”.
Even Theresa May complained that the Tories had become known to some as “the nasty party”. They were far more concerned about their “image” than with solving the problems we faced. Even if those problems were endangering the lives of ordinary Britons.
Well, Reform UK isn’t afraid of being called names. What I’m more afraid of is failure - the failure to set this country back on course and return it to a place of security and stability. It’s why we announced our 100 Days to Save Britain pledges at our party conference last month, and why I’m now going around the country reinforcing that message.
If my cabinet ministers in a Reform UK government don’t achieve significant changes, as per their public pledges, in their first 100 days in office, I’ll sack them. We don’t have time for failure.
Andy Burnham says his Labour Party needs 10 years to fix Britain. We don’t have 10 years.
The Conservative Party is in Birmingham this week to try to convince voters they’ve changed, despite 22 of Kemi Badenoch’s 26 Shadow Cabinet ministers having served in previous, failed Tory governments, two more of them serving as special advisers. That’s 24 out of 26 MPs from a proven disastrous regime.
I’ve set out a completely different course because I truly believe a general election is on the horizon in the next few months. We’ll deliver net negative migration as well as tighter English language and character requirements on entering. Our Operation Fortress policy will immediately deploy our Royal Navy to the Channel and stop all the boats. Not just a few - every last one.
We will leave the European Convention on Human Rights, repeal the Human Rights Act and legislate to prevent illegal entrants obtaining asylum. We have also pledged to proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood and called for full terrorist proscription of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
We don’t have time for incrementalism or “strategic reviews” to kick the can down the road. This is a crisis. A national security emergency. Not just in Europe or on our borders but already inside our very country.
This week, we will find out more about the alleged murder of my dear colleague Ann Widdecombe. And this month, we mourn on the five-year anniversary of the murder by an Islamic fundamentalist of the MP Sir David Amess. We owe it to everyone affected, especially voters, to say, “Enough is enough”.
(This is a slightly edited version of an article published in the Daily Mail on 5th October.)
“Also tonight, two Iranian nationals who arrived on small boats have been charged with terror offences in an alleged plot targeting Manchester’s Jewish community”, it continued.
All this in the same week as the apparent foiled attack on RAF Fairford, many details of which are yet to emerge, as well as stories about potential Russian activity near our undersea cables, to say nothing of alleged Chinese espionage at our universities.
That’s not all. In the past week we have learned about a top Hamas operative who came to Britain in 2015 and was granted asylum, back when Theresa May was home secretary and current shadow justice minister Nick Timothy was her special adviser.
That man, whose identity is protected by the authorities, is accused of plotting terror attacks across Europe from London.
And there’s even more.
On Saturday, it emerged that Hamam al-Hammami, the Omani citizen who tried to hijack a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv last week, had studied at a British university. Is it any wonder that even the citizens of Muslim countries like the UAE increasingly no longer want to send their children to study in Britain, given the risk of radicalisation here?
Seven major national security issues in just over a week. The result of 14 years of Tory misgovernment and national security malpractice, as well as a couple of years of Labour idleness.
It must now be accepted that the Westminster “uniparty” consensus is no longer just a threat to our economy, or individual rights, or, as we found out from the Labour conference last week in Liverpool, to your pension.
No, my argument is more existential than that. The Westminster consensus on national security is a genuine threat to Britons’ lives. I’ve been warning about this for well over a decade.
In 2015, a major terrorist attack on the Bataclan theatre and at the Stade de France in Paris left 130 dead and nearly 500 injured.
Following the attack, I was due to speak at an event in Basingstoke as part of the Say No to the EU tour. Reflecting on what had happened, I warned: “We’ve reached a point where we have to admit to ourselves in Britain and France and much of the rest of Europe that mass immigration and multicultural division has for now been a failure.”
In that same speech, I added that the open borders policy and vast migrant wave into Europe that year meant that, slowly but surely, many who wanted to harm us would end up on our shores.
It was hardly my only intervention on this. I knew that if the then-Conservative government didn’t do anything, we’d end up in the national security emergency we now find ourselves in.
To my dismay, Westminster ignored me. But I tried again. In 2017, I highlighted the Iranian threat via illegal migration. Still nothing. Then, six years ago, I warned of the small boats invasion in the Channel, often taking to sea to document the horrors myself. Again, I was dismissed.
In 2023, I reported on terrorists coming into Britain on small boats, and in 2025, in the House of Commons, I raised concerns over Iranian terrorists at Dover.
Every time - whether it was a Tory or a Labour government - I found myself banging my head against a brick wall.
Finally, in April and May of this year, I cited sources that had told me Iranian terrorists were already in our midst. I remember the howls of execration from the green benches of the Commons.
MPs shouted “shame”. The Tories presided over the largest influx of mass migration this country has ever seen. But shame on me? The Labour Party has no actual interest in stopping illegal boat crossings. At its recent party conference, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood committed to creating new “legal” routes to Britain for migrants from Afghanistan and Palestine.
No. Shame on them.
Back in 2016, the Tory government’s Casey review determined that ethnic segregation was worsening in areas of Britain. But the Conservative Party refused to address the matter for fear of being called “racist”.
Even Theresa May complained that the Tories had become known to some as “the nasty party”. They were far more concerned about their “image” than with solving the problems we faced. Even if those problems were endangering the lives of ordinary Britons.
Well, Reform UK isn’t afraid of being called names. What I’m more afraid of is failure - the failure to set this country back on course and return it to a place of security and stability. It’s why we announced our 100 Days to Save Britain pledges at our party conference last month, and why I’m now going around the country reinforcing that message.
If my cabinet ministers in a Reform UK government don’t achieve significant changes, as per their public pledges, in their first 100 days in office, I’ll sack them. We don’t have time for failure.
Andy Burnham says his Labour Party needs 10 years to fix Britain. We don’t have 10 years.
The Conservative Party is in Birmingham this week to try to convince voters they’ve changed, despite 22 of Kemi Badenoch’s 26 Shadow Cabinet ministers having served in previous, failed Tory governments, two more of them serving as special advisers. That’s 24 out of 26 MPs from a proven disastrous regime.
I’ve set out a completely different course because I truly believe a general election is on the horizon in the next few months. We’ll deliver net negative migration as well as tighter English language and character requirements on entering. Our Operation Fortress policy will immediately deploy our Royal Navy to the Channel and stop all the boats. Not just a few - every last one.
We will leave the European Convention on Human Rights, repeal the Human Rights Act and legislate to prevent illegal entrants obtaining asylum. We have also pledged to proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood and called for full terrorist proscription of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
We don’t have time for incrementalism or “strategic reviews” to kick the can down the road. This is a crisis. A national security emergency. Not just in Europe or on our borders but already inside our very country.
This week, we will find out more about the alleged murder of my dear colleague Ann Widdecombe. And this month, we mourn on the five-year anniversary of the murder by an Islamic fundamentalist of the MP Sir David Amess. We owe it to everyone affected, especially voters, to say, “Enough is enough”.
(This is a slightly edited version of an article published in the Daily Mail on 5th October.)
