REFORM UK MP Rupert Lowe has said he will call out the government for “gaslighting” MPs if ministers fail to provide data requested on illegal migrants in Britain’s prisons.

Speaking on GB News he said: “My view on this is that the British public deserve to have transparent, honest data. Good government is transparent government and ultimately, it’s the British taxpayer who’s paying the bills.

“And in my world, he who pays the piper calls the tune. I think it’s very important that we get honest, accurate data.

“Interestingly, when Angela Eagle answered that question, she didn’t deny that they had the data, but she said there’s going to be a big data dump later this week.

“We think it’s Thursday, and I just hope she’s not gaslighting everyone and going to dump the ONS data, which comes out quarterly anyway. But we can look at that on Thursday.

“This question was specifically about crimes committed by illegal migrants, which everybody says they’re asylum seekers. In my opinion, they’re not, they’re economic migrants.

“And lot of these guys are fighting age, young men arriving on the boats, throwing their passports into the sea.

“Often they’re lying about their age, which in itself brings questions about schools they go to and sort of threats to the decent tax-paying Brits.

“We’re a very decent nation, we’ve had a long history of trying to do the right thing and I think we continue to do that.

”But I do think it’s so important that if the foundations of our society are to be protected, we must get accurate data on this.

“I’m on record on Twitter as saying there are 10,500 foreign criminals in our prisons. We’re releasing our own prisoners early in order to keep them there. Personally, I would just deport them.

“If people come here and they commit crime and they go to prison, they should be sent home.

“And the worrying thing is, in answer to some of our questions, we’re finding out that those are regular repeat offenders.

“And you then get whistleblowers coming forward, which we’re getting now, who work very often in the public sector, and they are giving us the most unbelievable detail, which forms the basis of the questions we ask about perpetrators of crime, who are repeat perpetrators, whose fines are then paid with added benefits that they get now.

“We want honest data and then people can make their minds up that that’s what a healthy society should do.

“As I go along, I’m hoping that [data] not being withheld from us. And there is certainly a degree of a lack of coordination within government.

“But if you notice Angela Eagle, and she didn’t say that she was going to give us new data. But if she’s gaslighting us, when we get that data, we’re going to be able to call her out.

“Equally, she didn’t deny they had the data, I said in my question, because I think they have got the data.

“I think they do collect the data, and I think they don’t want to release this data.”