John Rees-Evans, who is among 11 candidates to become Ukip leader, also wants to cut the foreign aid budget

British Indians and other UK citizens who have dual nationality should be offered thousands of pounds to return to “their country of origin”, a Ukip leadership candidate has said.

John Rees-Evans, a former soldier who came a close third in the party’s last leadership election, has said that Britain should cut its £13.3 billion foreign aid budget to £1 billion and divert the savings to a scheme to slash Britain’s net migration figures.

Britons with dual nationality would be offered £9,000 and health insurance to relocate to countries where they had the right to settle, and set up small businesses under Mr Rees-Evans’s “fast track export-import scheme”. Their businesses would then be allowed to export tariff-free to Britain. British Indians and Tanzanians were cited by