Nigel Farage has warned that Britain faces a huge looming “loss of national sovereignty” that virtually no one is talking about. The former UK Independence Party and Brexit Party leader used his GB News show to alert viewers to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) upcoming pandemic treaty.

Countries are expected to sign up to it at a conference at the end of May to prepare for “Disease X” – the name for a future pandemic that could be even more deadly than coronavirus.

The WHO said it was a matter of when, not if, Disease X breaks and that the treaty was needed to ensure the world would be prepared for the next pandemic.

“The pandemic agreement can bring all the experience, all the challenges that we have faced and all the solutions into one,” WHO boss Tedros Ghebreyesu said earlier this year.

“That agreement can help us to prepare for the future in a better way.”

But Mr Farage, the honorary president of Reform UK, warned that the treaty would give the WHO “the right not only to tell us to lock down the next time they deem a pandemic, but also take 20 percent of our stocks of any medicines and vaccines we have to spread around the world”.

He added: “It’s such a loss of national sovereignty as to be untrue. So far, it would appear the British Government is going to sign up to this.

“The timetable may slip by a month or two but be in no doubt of the ambitions of the WHO to take a huge amount of power – and remember, we can’t vote for them to go in and we can’t vote to get rid of them either.

“And I really hope the British Government wakes up to this. I’m sure when this story gets a wider audience in this country people will be very, very strongly opposed to it.”

On his profile on X, formerly known as Twitter, he added: “When the British people begin to hear about the upcoming pandemic treaty they will be very angry indeed. It must be stopped.”

Mr Farage highlighted that 49 Republican senators have written to US President Joe Biden urging him to reject the treaty.