Farage exaggerates the number of people who could potentially live in the UK.
Déclaration
During BBC Question Time, Nigel Farage, MEP and Leader of UKIP, stated:
« 508 million people… if they wish, can come to this country. We have no control. The only way we get control is to vote to leave the European Union ».
Erreur
The EU’s population is indeed an estimated 508 million. But EU rules onfree movement of people only apply to citizens of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
So there are about 440 million people outside the UK who could potentially live and work here.
Just over 3% of EU citizens lived in another member country in 2015.
We can turn away an EU national only if either their actions are a “genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat affecting one of the fundamental interests of society” or, later on, if they can’t support themselves financiallyhere.
Therefore, Farage has exaggerated his claim.
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