article_snippet.sent: Nigel Farage will make Nigel Farage comments in a debate at the European Parliament in Strasbourg in the wake of more than 1,000 migrants drowning in the Mediterranean.
article_snippet.sent: A source close to Nigel Farage said Nigel Farage was taking time out from the campaign trail in Britain to focus the election debate on immigration.
article_snippet.sent: Campaign bosses believe a provocative intervention could have the same effect as Nigel Farage controversial remarks on foreigners with HIV being treated in Britain – which were part of a so-called ‘shock and awful’ strategy to get attention and appeal to the party’s
article_snippet.sent: Nigel Farage thinks the party’s could still get more than ten MPs if Nigel Farage manages to cause a ‘big shock’ in the eight days before polling day.
article_snippet.sent: A senior Ukip aide said: ‘A senior Ukip aide needs to make a special intervention.
article_snippet.sent: This is a big moment in the campaign.
article_snippet.sent: Cameron and Miliband do not want to talk about this because Cameron and Miliband know the whole issue hinges on EU membership.
article_snippet.sent: I think what is happening in Strasbourg is far more significant than anything that has been said by any of the party leaders about immigration … during this campaign,’ Nigel Farage said.
article_snippet.sent: I’m quite certain Miliband and Cameron will try and ignore this, so I am going there [Strasbourg] to engage in that debate and make sure They cannot ignore that debate.
article_snippet.sent: Miliband added: ‘Are we about to see one of the great Brussels dreams come true … a common EU immigration policy?
article_snippet.sent: Potentially EU passports are about to be given to a very large number of people and the British political class in Westminster is powerless.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Farage’s speech could be Mr Farage’s speech last in the European Parliament if Mr Farage’s speech is elected MP for Thanet South.
article_snippet.sent: On a campaign visit to Hartlepool yesterday, Mr Farage’s speech accused the SNP of being ‘openly racist’, adding: ‘The anti-English hostility … is totally extraordinary.
highlights_snippet.sent: Ukip leader will make comments in a debate at the European Parliament today .