Zia Yusuf is Reform UK home affairs spokesperson.Vodafone has rejected Zia Yusuf’s call for them to stop donating mobile phone SIM cards which are then given to asylum seekers.
Reform UK’s home affairs spokesman has written to the company’s board of directors warning them that they face jail if his party wins the next election.
It emerged recently that Vodafone has given more than 2,000 SIM cards to the Care4Calais charity, which gives them to migrants arriving in the UK.
Yusuf said: “Vodafone’s CEO is paid £10 million a year while her company hands thousands of SIM cards to illegal migrants in Calais, helping them break into Britain and putting British women and girls at risk.
“I have given her and Vodafone’s board the opportunity to publicly disavow this activity and cut ties with Care4Calais.
“Under a Reform UK government, there will be serious consequences for companies that knowingly facilitate illegal entry.
“Those responsible, including Vodafone’s CEO and company directors, will face criminal sanctions and prison. The company would be removed from government contracts and face regulatory sanctions.
“The days of gilded elites enriching themselves while ordinary British communities pay the price are coming to an end.”
But a spokeperson for Vodafone defended the company’s policy.
He said: “VodafoneThree’s programme provides mobile SIMs to registered UK charities - against strict programme criteria - for distribution to vulnerable people in the UK.
“Participating charities, regulated by the Charity Commission, distribute the six months connectivity to those they identify as being in need.
“All calls, texts and data are for UK use only.”
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