August 19, 2017 7:48 PM

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Far-right politician wants to offer Indians money to leave UK

A leadership candidate for the UK's anti-immigrant far-right party has come up with a radical plan to cut unnecessary population in the UK by incentivising some migrants, including from India, to return to the country of their origin.<br/><br/>John Rees-Evans, a candidate to lead the UK Independence Party (UKIP), made a specific reference to Indians and Tanzanians in relation to a so-called fast track export- import scheme of offering up to 9,000 pounds to certain Commonwealth migrants to leave the UK. He suggested that the UK government's foreign aid budget should be cut from more than 13 billion pounds a year to 1 billion pounds. <br/><br/>Rees-Evans is among 11 candidates trying to become UKIP's sixth leader in two years since Nigel Farage stepped down. The last UKIP leader, Paul Nuttall, resigned after winning just 1.8 per cent of the vote in the June General Election. Voting opens on the 1st of next month, with the results to be announced at UKIP's annual conference at the end of next month.

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