Nigel Farage would axe 'much of' race discrimination laws
UKIP would scrap much of the legislation designed to prevent racial discrimination in work, party leader Nigel Farage has said.
He was speaking in a Channel 4 documentary to be shown next week.
He says the fact that an employer cannot choose between a Briton and somebody from overseas is "ludicrous".
Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said Mr Farage's comments were one of the most shocking things he had ever heard from a mainstream politician.
Mr Farage was speaking in an interview with the former head of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, Trevor Phillips, for a documentary called Things We Won't Say About Race That Are True.
Mr Farage said that while concern over preventing racial discrimination in employment "would probably have been valid" 40 years ago, it is not today.
"If I talked to my children... about the question of race, they wouldn't know what I was talking about," he was reported to say.
(continued, kids today eh? wouldn't even know to call Farage a Belgium biscuit.... )
