'I'm Deporter-in-Chief!' Nigel Farage flabbergasted after reading letters from foreign criminals BEGGING to be deported from UK

Farage revealed: "For the last few weeks, letters have been arriving in my office. I was quite surprised to see one from His Majesty's Prison Full Sutton.

'It says 'I'm a foreign national prisoner. I've been sentenced to 15 years and six months for GBH with intent', which I think means he's a gangster. 'Why won't you deport me? Please get rid of me. You'd save huge amounts of money.'"

Reading a second letter from a prisoner originally from India, Farage told GB News viewers: "I got a one from an Indian, and he writes to me from HMP Ashfield.

"He says 'I only came on a one year visa, but I've been in prison now for two years. Please deport me'.

"He makes the point that there are hundreds of foreign national prisoners like him who want to be deported."

Reading a third letter from a Spanish criminal serving a sentence in another UK prison, Farage continued: "Another one came in today from Spain. 'Please deport me, I haven't seen my wife and kids for the last three years'."

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Delivering his verdict on the letters, Farage quipped: "Why they're all writing to me? I suppose they must see me as deporter in chief or something like that!"

Farage suggested: "But it's interesting that overnight, clearly these letters to me, there's obviously a campaign of some kind going on because overnight the Government have announced they will start to deport foreign criminals rather more quickly.

"At the moment, we don't deport people until they're down to the last 18 months or so of the sentence they're going to serve."

Farage concluded: "But I just wonder, you know, will this ever actually happen?

"Will it be enacted? Will we start to get rid of people earlier? And why don't we just get rid of them on day one?"

Weighing in on whether foreign criminals should be deported more quickly, former Attorney General Sir Michael Ellis told GB News: "Frankly, it's in a nutshell, Nigel, it's because the Government and successive Governments have been too weak on this subject.

"And the way they've been too weak is because they will not put enough pressure on foreign Governments to take back the offenders that should be with them."