{"id":44840,"date":"2026-04-08T14:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=44840"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:38:16","slug":"farage-vows-to-block-visas-from-countries-demanding-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=44840","title":{"rendered":"Farage Vows to Block Visas From Countries Demanding Reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Nigel Farage\u2019s Reform UK party has vowed to block visas to Britain from any country which demands slavery reparations from the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">Shadow Home Secretary Zia Yusuf, who would be tasked with controlling immigration should the party take power at the next general election, announced this week that migrants from countries backing the leftist push for reparations would not be welcome under a Reform government.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>Yusuf pointed to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZiaYusufUK\/status\/2041422868047712298\">said<\/a> that unless they drop their demands for reparations, he would block visas for nationals from Antigua, Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, the\u00a0Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nations, Dominica, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n<p>Yusuf <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZiaYusufUK\/status\/2041405302042464293\">said<\/a>: \u201cCountries who received 3.8 million visas and \u00a36.6 billion in aid from Britain are demanding trillions in reparations. Britain\u2019s decision to abolish slavery was the most expensive moral foreign policy in history. We won\u2019t be punished for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">\u201cUnder a Reform government, if a country demands reparations, we will stop issuing visas.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<p>Reform UK leader Nigel Farage <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nigel_Farage\/status\/2041406355844583839\">added<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019ve had enough of us being threatened by the UN and these countries. Reform UK will block visa requests from any country that demands slavery reparations. It\u2019s time to make a stand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2041553178890543264\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nigel_Farage\/status\/2041553178890543264\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yusuf argued that such countries ignored the sacrifices made by the British Empire in the service of eliminating the Western slave trade.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, after becoming the first nation in the world to outlaw the slave trade, with the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807 and the owning of slaves with the 1833\u00a0Slavery Abolition Act, the British Empire used considerable resources to stamp out slavery throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the Royal Navy\u2019s West Africa Squadron freed some\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/archives.history.ac.uk\/1807commemorated\/exhibitions\/museums\/chasing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">150,000 African slaves<\/a>\u00a0after capturing an estimated 1,600 slave trade ships between\u00a01807 and 1860.\u00a0In total, 1,587 men died on the West Africa Squadron during efforts to stamp out slavery. Britain was also instrumental in combating the\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.historytoday.com\/archive\/bombardment-algiers-1816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Barbary<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6510675.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">East African<\/a>\u00a0slave trades as well.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, leftist campaigners have claimed that countries like Britain should pay \u201ctrillions\u201d in reparations to the descendants of slaves.<\/p>\n<p>The move by Reform comes in the wake of the United Nations <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2026\/03\/1167199\">adopting<\/a> a resolution last month calling for reparations for slavery, put forward by the African nation of Ghana. Additionally, the resolution declared that the transatlantic slave trade was the greatest crime against humanity in history. This comes despite the\u00a0Arab slave trade lasting far longer and often engaging in far more brutal treatment of slaves, including the castration of African males.<\/p>\n<p>The left-wing British government of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said that it would not agree to pay reparations. However, at a meeting of\u00a0Commonwealth nations in 2024, the Labour PM <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c207m3m0xpjo\">signed<\/a> a document calling for more\u00a0\u201cdiscussions on reparatory justice\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#1414586342055546884\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1414586342055546884\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">Follow Kurt Zindulka on X:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @KurtZindulka<\/a> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">or e-mail to: kzindulka@breitbart.com<\/span><\/em><\/h5>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2026\/04\/08\/nigel-farages-reform-uk-vows-to-block-visas-from-countries-demanding-slavery-reparations\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigel Farage\u2019s Reform UK party has vowed to block visas to Britain from any country which demands slavery reparations from the United Kingdom. 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