A presenter on LBC delivered a brutal fact check following claims by senior Reform UK politicians that the small boats crisis means the UK is no longer a “safe haven” for women and girls.
Andrea Jenkyns , the party’s mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, claimed she no longer feels safe walking the streets of Britain.
Her colleague, Reform MP Sarah Pochin , said illegal migrants put women “at risk of sexual assault”.
Party leader Nigel Farage has also claimed that asylum seekers coming to the UK in small boats are a national security risk, and made disputed claims that they are more likely to commit sexual offences than British men.
But in a monologue on his LBC show, Ben Kentish pointed out that high numbers of sexual offences were taking place in the UK long before the small boats