Reform UK's Zia Yusuf has claimed that some of those 'most exercised' about the Channel migrant crisis are legal migrants.
The multi-millionaire businessman, one of the leading figures in Nigel Farage's party, said anger about people entering the UK illegally via small boats is due to a sense of 'fairness'.
'It's not about good or bad [migrants] per se, it's about the sort of people who come here, and it's about numbers,' Mr Yusuf, the son of Sri Lankan parents, told the Financial Times.
'Some of the people who are most exercised about what is going on with illegal migration are legal migrants.'
He added: 'It's about fairness... they had to go through a process, they had to wait.'
