The owner of Ineos Grenadiers, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, has claimed that “the UK is being colonised by immigrants”.
The billionaire, founder of the Ineos petrochemicals group, made the comments in an interview with Sky News, released on Wednesday evening,
“You can’t afford… you can’t have an economy with 9 million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in,” he said. “The UK is being colonised by immigrants, really, isn’t it?
“I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it’s 70 million. That’s 12 million people.”
Last month, Ineos the chemical company was granted £120m of British government funding to help secure the future of a plant in Scotland.
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