Zia Yusuf doesn't do diplomatic.

Reform UK's chairman and their pick for Home Secretary went on the Express today and said what millions have been thinking for years. Britain, he said, has become "a food bank for the world." And the numbers back him up.

£15 billion. That's what we've spent on universal credit payments to EU nationals alone. Not total welfare. Just universal credit. Extrapolate to 2029 and you're north of £20 billion.

"By 2030, it's going to be more than the country spends on policing," Yusuf said. Let that sink in. We'll be spending more on benefits for foreign nationals than we do keeping our streets safe.

His solution? Scrap the lot. Under a Reform government, only British citizens would receive welfare. Full stop. EU Settled Status holders keep their right to live here. They just lose the right to claim off the British taxpayer.

"European leaders are laughing at us," Yusuf told the Express. "They won't be laughing when Nigel is prime minister."

The leverage, he argues, is trade. Britain is a massive trading partner for France, Germany, and the rest. When Johnson's Withdrawal Agreement was negotiated, there were already four times as many EU nationals in the UK as Brits in the EU. The deal was lopsided from day one.

Reform's full plan: scrap indefinite leave to remain entirely. Replace it with a five-year visa. Anyone already granted settlement has to reapply. And not a penny of welfare to any foreign national.

Is it radical? Yes. Is it popular? Ask the millions of taxpayers watching their council tax climb while benefits flow to people who've never paid into the system.

The Withdrawal Agreement was always a bad deal. Yusuf just said it out loud.