‘No they didn’t’: Nigel Farage angered after caller says Leave voters wanted migrants sent home ‘As soon as you got what you wanted, you stepped back, you cut it off.’

This was the moment an angry caller let rip at Nigel Farage during his show on LBC, provoking a furious response from the presenter after she told him his supporters thought migrants would be ‘sent home the day after Brexit.’

Lydia in Leeds fumed at the LBC presenter during his show, broadcast from Brussels on Wednesday night, where Theresa May is attending a summit of EU leaders.

She told the politician-turned-radio presenter that in her local area, “people who have never voted before in their lives voted to leave the European Union”.

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“As soon as you got what you wanted, you stepped back, you cut it off,” she told him.

“You separated yourself, you got what you wanted. Where are they now? Where are we now? Everything is going to go up, prices are going to rocket.

“People who voted for you thought that every migrant was going to go back the following day, and they didn’t and they won’t,” she shouted as Farage tried to interrupt. “That’s what it was about.”

‘Shipped back the following day’

The Ukip MEP finally managed to reply: “When we joined the common market, we were told that if we didn’t join the common market, we’d have expensive food, it was going to give us cheaper food – it gave us the opposite.”

“Now we are leaving, your telling me food is going to go up because we leave, why?”

But Lydia continued to push her point home saying: “People who voted for you thought that everybody in this country who had come here as migrants were going to get shipped back the following day.”

“No they didn’t!” Farage replied angrily. “No they didn’t, no they did not – that is utter, complete rubbish.”

Breaking point

Farage gained notoriety in the run-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum with a poster titled ‘Breaking Point’ overlaid on a photo of hundreds of migrants entering the European Union. This provoked widespread condemnation, including from many in the Leave campaign.

Farage said that Lydia’s point on food prices rising due to Brexit was wrong. “The best thing about no deal, the best thing about the WTO deal is we will be able to make food cheaper, shoes cheaper, bras cheaper, something the other side never tell us,” he said.

“Lydia, you’ve got it wrong. We argued for control of our borders. very simple, very straightforward and supported an overwhelming majority of the British people and you are quite right in one thing.

“Many people who voted in that referendum had never voted in their lives, which is why a second referendum will be a very dangerous thing.”