{"id":55592,"date":"2025-04-27T19:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T19:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/55592\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T19:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T19:59:08","slug":"nigel-farage-wants-to-be-like-barack-obama-as-he-eyes-pm-job-ahead-of-local-elections-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/55592\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage wants to be \u2018like Barack Obama\u2019 as he eyes PM job ahead of local elections \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama, a Democrat, and Farage, an admirer of current President Donald Trump, hail from different political traditions but the Reform leader wrote that there\u2019s an area he\u2019d like to emulate the former U.S. president \u2014 immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

If he were to ever hold the country\u2019s top job, Farage pledged to operate a \u201czero tolerance policy,\u201d through new \u201clegally robust\u201d reforms and bilateral agreements to facilitate returns.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s worth saying that deportations on the scale we envisage do have recent precedent,\u201d he added, citing Obama, who he said \u201cearned himself the title \u2018Deporter in Chief’\u201d after he formally removed 3 million noncitizens from the U.S. over two terms between 2009 and 2017.<\/p>\n

Between 800,000 and 1.2 million unauthorized migrants were estimated to live<\/a> in the U.K. in 2017, the most recent year for which reliable data is available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Obama, a Democrat, and Farage, an admirer of current President Donald Trump, hail from different political traditions but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[6904,748,1193,32,33,28284,393,4884,40,807,6657,384,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-55592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-british-politics","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-elections","14":"tag-elections-in-europe","15":"tag-england","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-keir-starmer","19":"tag-migration","20":"tag-nigel-farage","21":"tag-northern-ireland","22":"tag-scotland","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}