Nigel Farage vows to ban asylum seekers with HIV from receiving NHS treatment

Reiterating his position at a rally in Aberdeen, Mr Farage said: “The idea that somebody can newly arrive in Britain and get expensive NHS treatment, whether it’s for HIV or hepatitis or whatever it is [...].“Truth of it is: this is a national health service. It is not an international health service.”NHS guidelines currently allow asylum seekers to receive NHS treatment for HIV even if the Home Office has refused their claims. Mr Farage suggested in 2015 that British taxpayers were coughing up around £25,000 a year to pay for migrants to receive HIV treatment on the NHS.He said at the time: “You can come into Britain from anywhere in the world and get diagnosed with HIV and get the retro-viral drugs that cost up to £25,000 per year per patient.“What we need to do is to put the NHS there for British people and families, who in many cases have paid into the system for decades.”Ed Miliband, who was leader of the Labour Party at the time, described the comments as disgusting.FOLLOW BELOW FOR LIVE UPDATES THROUGHOUT THE DAYKeir Starmer’s ‘failed’ one-in, one-out deal sees taxpayer cost hit £50k per migrant sent back to FranceSending a small boat migrant back to France now costs just under £50,000 per person under Sir Keir Starmer’s one-in, one-out deal, it has been revealed.Analysis by the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford suggests a single flight from Stansted to Paris - carrying 32 male migrants alongside 73 escorts and two paramedics - could cost taxpayers up to £1.52million.The research found the cost of removing a migrant has risen sharply from around £15,000 per person a decade ago.The total includes casework, charter flights and financial support provided to migrants after they leave the UK.READ THE FULL STORY HEREImmigration lawyers REFUSE to represent migrants due for deportation to FranceImmigration lawyers are refusing to represent migrants set for deportation under the one-in, one-out scheme with France.Of the 38 migrants set for deportation flights from Stansted airport to Paris, only six were removed due to legal intervention.An official inspection of the removal flight by Charlie Taylor, chief inspector of prisons, found that solicitors were refusing to take on the cases or not responding to requests for legal assistance.The report from Mr Taylor stated that migrants due for deportation were having difficulty securing legal representation or that the timeframe was too short to build evidence for a legal dispute.READ THE FULL STORY HEREZack Polanski's Greens would add millions of migrants to UK population, report warnsZack Polanski's Green Party would likely add millions of migrants to the UK's ever-growing population, a damning new report has revealed.City investment bank Panmure Liberum estimated that Mr Polanski's open borders policy would drive net migration to around 900,000 a year — pushing the UK population from 71.5 million in 2029 to 75.9 million by 2034.Meanwhile, Reform UK's plan would keep net migration at around 40,000 a year, while the Tories would add approximately 160,000. Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter