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Hatred towards Jews has become “embedded” in Britain after repeated failures to tackle hate marches, the Muslim Brotherhood and Iranian-sponsored plots, Nigel Farage warned.

The Reform UK leader, speaking in Golders Green, warned ministers “keep on appeasing a certain section of the electorate”.

And Mr Farage warned Iranian “operatives” have crossed the Channel over the “last few weeks”, adding “we are importing terrorists”.

He demanded Labour expel the Iranian ambassador to the UK, Seyed Ali Mousavi, proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as terrorists and ban the Muslim Brotherhood.

The senior politician declared: “I do have a source within the Iranian Persian diaspora who is one of the best-connected human beings in the World that I know.

“He told me last night that he knows for a fact that over the course of the last few weeks, there have been Iranian operatives who have been crossing the English Channel in small boats.

“To put that in simple terms, we are importing terrorists into our country from across the English Channel and I challenge the British Government to tell me I’m wrong, because I think, given everything we are seeing, it almost makes sense that they would do that.

“This comes from very high-level intelligence.”

Mr Farage said the Prime Minister should expel the Iranian ambassador and proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as terrorist organisations.

“We don’t do it because we keep on pandering, we keep on appeasing a certain section of the electorate,” he said.

“There were some basic suggestions that I’ve been making now for two or three years.”

He said tougher action was needed following the Iranian embassy posting a message calling for expats to “sacrifice their lives for the homeland” on its Telegram channel.

He added: “Just a few days ago, a call was made that is literally a whisker away from advocating the setting up of a paramilitary organisation within this country. What has happened thus far? Well, the ambassador has been summoned for a cup of tea.

“Frankly, if we mean it, we should expel the ambassador and say we will never have embassies in our country encouraging this kind of behaviour.”

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood faces growing calls to suspend pro-Palestine protests which critics have warned act as “cover for violence and intimidation against Jews”.

Mr Farage added: “Prime Minister, frankly, we’ve seen no action of any kind.

“Suffice to say that this is not just an attack on Jewish people. This is much bigger, much broader, much more fundamental, and if you’re the group currently being targeted, well, who’s next?”

“The other big issue is the Muslim Brotherhood, which pushes a very dangerous, radical agenda. You’ve got to proscribe the organisation that tries its best to spread terrorism.

“We have allowed marches to take place with chants being heard over the streets of London, and other cities and we’ve not acted and the Government has been weak, weak, weak.

“I’m not pretending we can reverse this tide of hatred overnight. We can’t. It’s here. It’s embedded, and it’s going to be a threat for many, many years to come.”

The Tories have vowed to push through emergency legislation proscribing the IRGC as terrorists.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp told GB News: “We need to stop antisemitism happening in the first place. But what does that mean?

“It means, for example, deporting any foreign citizen, or indeed British citizen whose citizenship can be revoked, who commits antisemitism or expresses antisemitic views or support for extremism or support for terrorism, because we cannot keep importing extremism and terrorism into this country.

“We have to just stop that completely and deport people who are here, who are antisemitic or who express support for extremism or terrorism is not acceptable.

“Where we can kick people out who do those things we should do, foreign citizens and even British citizens, where they have dual nationality or where we can strip them of their citizenship.”

He added: “It’s also worth saying that Iran has been organising and sponsoring some of the recent antisemitic attacks, I don’t know about yesterday, but it’s certainly been sponsoring and organising others.

“That is why we do need to ban the IRGC immediately, not in a year’s time, but now, and we Conservatives would help the Government.

“We’d back the Government to pass emergency legislation to ban the IRGC in the next few weeks.

“This doesn’t need to take a long time, in the next few weeks, and the Government should also be expelling all Iranian agents in the UK and most of their diplomats, because they have been organising attacks and paying criminals to carry out these attacks.”

The Home Secretary signalled she would consider banning the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), an Iranian military group.

She said: “Just to reassure you, the only reason I’m not giving a wider commentary on who this will include is because we would never give any commentary on organisations that we are considering for either our proscription regime… or indeed, this new regime,” she told Sky News.

“I expect to be making decisions in the very near future about the groups that we will be designating as state-linked.”

Legislation creating proscription-like powers to pursue people and organisations acting on behalf of malign state-sponsored groups will also be “fast-tracked” in the coming weeks, ministers said.

The plans will be included in the King’s Speech setting out the Government’s legislative agenda for the coming parliamentary session on May 13.