Andrew Jenkyns has walked away from another interview.
It comes after the new Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire has called for illegal migrants to be housed in tents during her extraordinary victory speech. Reform UK’s Dame Andrea Jenkyns won convincingly the first-ever contest to be Mayor of the county.
After initially thanking her campaign staff and those involved in the election count, she launched into a venomous attack on her opponents, lambasting the campaign as the worst she has fought. Dame Andrea also called for ‘illegal migrants’, or asylum seekers being processed, to be put up in tents instead of hotels.
When asked by the BBC about the remarks in a subsequent press pool, Dame Andrea doubled down, and claimed: “I think that’s what the silent majority think.” She added: “Illegal migrants, people who come here illegally, should be put in tents.
Fracking
The new mayor of Lincolnshire also said she will be meeting with a fracking company to discuss a business case to extract gas from underground in the county.
Dame Andrea Jenkyns said the move would “really save money for the Lincolnshire taxpayers”.
Dame Andrea said the three main parties had a “homogenized view” on net zero, and that there had been no scrutiny of the plans.
“I will be meeting with a fracking company after the gas find, and put a business argument [forward],” she added. “We should be doing that. That will really save money for the Lincolnshire taxpayers.”
Watch
As you can see, Andrea Jenkyns walks away from an interview with #C4News when she is asked how she’s going to move asylum seekers out of hotels into tents.
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