Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has claimed that British culture is "directly under threat" due to mass immigration, as he addressed around a thousand supporters in County Durham.

Farage thanked the crowd for turning out "at such short notice", and declared that there is something going "very wrong" with Britain, ahead of the General Election next week.

Focussing on future generations in the opening of his keynote speech, Farage claimed that we have been "poisoning our young people" and "indoctrinating a younger generation to believe that everything about our past is wrong".

Farage fumed: "I think it's absolutely appalling. I want them to learn that whilst not everything in our history is perfect, actually there is no country in the world with a better past than us and we should be proud of those that went before it."

Hailing the growth in support for Reform among the younger generations, Farage stated he is "very excited" that he has been able to "connect with the younger generation".

Paying homage to his stint on reality TV show I'm A Celeb, he joked: "Whether that's a result of having snakes crawling all over me and the jungle or not, I don't know.

"But I do have the most active TikTok of any British political figure by miles, and I sense the younger coming."

Turning his attention to the issue of migration in Britain, Farage warned that there is an "even deeper sense of unease" about "what is happening in our communities".

Lambasting the changes over "the last 25 years" in Britain, Farage slammed the "divide and damage" the recent surge in illegal immigration has caused to our communities.

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Farage told the crowd: "We've accepted absolutely, since the late 1940s, that immigration into Britain can be a good thing. But what has happened over the course of the last 25 years is something entirely different.

"It is mass migration on a level that in fact begins not just to divide and damage communities and potentially to set people apart from each other, which is dangerous, but also a feeling that perhaps something about our culture is directly under threat. That sense of who we are and that this is a problem."

Highlighting the growing numbers of illegal and legal migration into Britain, Farage raged: "Tony Blair comes to power and opens the door - a net, over his premiership, 2.7 million people come.

"And the Conservatives accelerate it because now nearly 4.5 million have come since they came to power."

Expressing his concern for the impact of mass migration on Britons, Farage claimed the country is "suffering" as a result, with basic needs such as getting doctors appointments and housing becoming "almost impossible".

The Reform leader declared: "Certainly in the southeast, the roads are clogged beyond imagination. Access to a GP is pretty much impossible at short notice, and housing has become, for most young people, simply an unobtainable dream.

"It's a simple demand-supply equation, and that's why I've said from the start, that this really should be the immigration election.

"So we have a sense things going wrong. And by the way, if you're self-employed out there or running a small limited company, you know what I'm about to say - neither front bench has any comprehension of who you are or what you do."