Farage: UK should prepare to leave WHO

BRITAIN should leave the World Health Organisation (WHO) rather than hand it the power to force the country into lockdown during pandemics, Nigel Farage has told The Telegraph.

The president of Reform UK described the WHO as “a failing, expensive, unelected, unaccountable, supranational body” that wants to “run roughshod” over nation states by dictating health policy to them.

The WHO is proposing a pandemic treaty that would be legally binding on all 194 member states, and is pushing for mandatory lockdowns and vaccinations. It hopes to reach an agreement later this month. The Government has insisted it would never hand over authority to the WHO over whether lockdowns should be imposed, but Mr Farage says ministers should be prepared to go further and leave the Geneva-based body if necessary.

He has joined forces with the international pressure group Action on World Health (AWH), which today launches a campaign to reform the WHO.

AWH says the WHO has repeatedly failed to protect the public, by wrongly insisting in January 2020 that there was no human to human transmission of Covid-19 and by proving ineffective during the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak and the 2003 Sars outbreak.

The group also wants to slash the WHO’S budget of £5.5 billion, mostly funded by the US, the UK and the EU, and prevent “mission creep”.

Mr Farage said: “Let’s have a proper debate about what the WHO is for. We don’t want this treaty to be signed, we think [it] should go back to first principles.” He added the WHO “can be a force for good” but had overshot its remit.

“It’s shocking that someone in Geneva that we didn’t vote for could force us into lockdown,” Mr Farage said.

In the US, all 49 Republican senators have written to president Joe Biden urging him not to sign the treaty.