Another week, another Reform UK migration news conference that was strong on vibes, low on detail.

Leader Nigel Farage repeatedly refused to go into specifics on his most radical policy proposal yet: abolishing the right for migrants to qualify for permanent settlement in the UK after five years.

Instead, at a Westminster news conference on Monday he argued his chief aim is “to wake everybody up to the ‘Boriswave’”. That’s Reform’s new slogan, which refers to the huge jump in arrivals during Boris Johnson’s time in No 10, which peaked at 906,000 net immigrants in the year to June 2023. Farage said it represents the “greatest betrayal of democratic wishes certainly in anyone’s living memory.”

Farage said there has been “too little debate” about legal immigration and that for 20 years h

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