To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video BBC Breakfast fans couldn’t help but note how ‘uncomfortable’ Naga Munchetty looked while talking to Nigel Farage on this morning’s show. The 49-year-old presenter appeared to interview the Reform UK leader, 60, through gritted teeth, and her demeanor didn’t go unnoticed by viewers. Farage – who recently announced he would be running in the upcoming election after his initial reluctance – was speaking to Naga and Charlie Stayt, when the conversation got heated as it turned to migration.
Naga repeatedly pulled Farage up on his figures, which he said showed ‘appalling’ levels of migration into the UK. ‘Two and a half million have come to Britain over the course of the last two years. In fact, one in 30 people on the streets of Britain today have come in the last two years, which is extraordinary,’ Farage said.
Naga replied: ‘Now that figure I will say, we have fact-checked that figure and that figure takes a look at the people coming in and hasn’t accounted for the people who have left.’ Farage claimed that half are ‘not coming to work’ but entering the country as ‘dependents’, prompting Naga to ask: ‘Where did you get that figure?’ She then pointed out that ‘dependents’ could be children, who have potential to work in the future. ‘A massive influx of unskilled labour has driven down productivity,’ Farage added, to which Na.