Nick Ferrari Calls Out Reform UK MP For Presenting A Belief As A Fact In On-Air Clash
Sarah Pochin, who was elected in May's Runcorn and Helsby by-election, claimed crime statistics prove her party is the only one telling the truth when it came to rape cases.
She pointed to new data from the Ministry of Justice which revealed over a quarter of recorded sexual assaults on women were committed by foreign nationals.
'Reform politicians are the only ones prepared to stand up and say it how it is,' she said – before then alleging: 'Those attacks are aimed at white British women.'
But LBC'sNick Ferrari asked: 'How do you know that they're all white British women?'
'Well, we don't know that,' she admitted.
'You just said they were?' Ferrari pushed.
'That's what I believe to be the case,' she replied.
The presenter noted: 'You are a member of parliament, you say they're all white British women.
'When I asked you how you know that, you say, I don't know.'
Pochin then revised her original statement, saying: 'Predominantly! I believe that predominantly they are all white British women.'
'What is that belief based on?' Ferrari pushed.
She said: 'Rape reports in my constituency for example... I'm just going on evidence I've picked up from the media, listening to reports, etc.
'The fact is, Nick, these stats final prove that this Labour government and the Tory one before, [were] letting in endless amounts of migrants from countries like Afghanistan every single day, across the Channel, doing absolutely nothing about it. [That] is putting women in this country at risk.'
This is not the first time Pochin has clashed with journalists over her claims.
She was given a key reality check during an appearance on BBC's Politics Live after claiming it was a 'fact' that Afghan and Eritreans are more likely to carry out sexual assaults.
But presenter Vicki Young told Pochin: 'Can I give some context, please, around what you're talking about – the Afghan and Eritrean sexual assault convictions.
'They committed 129 offences over three years, and that is out of a total number of convictions where the nationalities are known of 16,771. So that is the context around the numbers, I just think we should deal in facts.'
Labour's foreign secretary David Lammyalso accused Pochin of 'swallowing conspiracy theories' in June after she suggested the government's controversial decision to give the Chagos Islands to Mauritius had played a part in the US's plans for bombing Iran.
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