Reform UK Threatens to Deny Visas to Citizens of Countries Demanding Reparations

Nigel Farage's Reform UK said on Tuesday it was proposing to deny visas to people from countries seeking amends for transatlantic slavery, a move swiftly condemned by the Caribbean reparations commission as a "legacy of toxic racism".

The anti-immigration and populist party Reform UK, which has only eight national lawmakers but is topping opinion polls ahead of an election in Britain due by 2029, said it would "block visa requests ​from any country that demands slavery reparations," which include Commonwealth countries of Britain's former empire, such as Ghana and Jamaica.

Zia Yusuf, Reform's policy chief ⁠for home affairs, said reparations calls were "insulting" as they "ignore the fact that Britain made huge sacrifices to be the first major power to outlaw slavery and enforce this prohibition."

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