Nigel Farage clashes with BBC’s Mishal Husain over migration: ‘This is getting silly’

'This is getting silly': Farage lost his cool as Radio 4's Mishal Husain asked him about migration.Source: BBC Radio 4 Today

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00:00Most of the skilled workers I'm putting to you, you're suggesting would still be allowed.

00:03So midwives, is that a yes?

00:05In limited numbers.

00:07Architects?

00:08In limited numbers.

00:09Butchers?

00:10In limited numbers.

00:11Bakers?

00:13This is really getting rather silly isn't it?

00:14Well it's a large, that's what I'm suggesting, that actually if you think about these occupations,

00:19there is a large number of different occupations that it appears this country needs.

00:24Well I'll tell you what, we cannot go on as we are.

00:28We have to limit numbers.

00:30Our lives, our quality of life in this country is being diminished by the population explosion

00:35and if that means that in some sectors there'd be shortages, what that then means is that

00:41wages would go up and we'd start to encourage people to learn skills rather than heading

00:46off to university and doing social sciences.

00:48But interestingly, even the Labour Party are asking questions about this now.

00:53If the key thing is the numbers being limited, what's the overall number of people you would

00:57be prepared to see come to the UK to work every year?

01:01Net migration at zero would be the target.