Nigel Farage, the UKIP leader has faced fresh criticism, after he called for the children of immigrants to be classed as immigrants too. Party has reportedly said that the 'problem' of hiding these babies from immigration statistics had 'ramifications' for public services. This would include the party leader’s own two children as immigrants.
The party highlighted a report issued last week by the right-wing thinktank MigrationWatch UK, which said immigration’s impact on population growth had been underestimated by more than 1.3 million because babies of those coming to this country were not taken into account.
Neither MigrationWatch nor UKIP suggested that the citizenship of those born in Britain was in question.
But Mr Farage, whose wife is German, tweeted his own concerns that “84% of population growth between 2001 and 2012 – or 3.8 million – was due to migration” – if you include children born here in the statistics.
Other Twitter users suggested this is the case “only if you count your kids as migrants, dear Nige”, and that by this definition “Winston Churchill and Prince Charles are immigrants”.
