Former U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage blasted Britain, during an interview Sunday on Fox News, for allowing itself to become “absolutely hide-bound” by “political correctness” in dealing with the lethal threat posed by radical Islamic terrorism.

Farage, a Fox News contributor, spoke in the aftermath of Saturday’s terrorist attacks near London Bridge and Borough Market, which left seven dead and 48 injured. Noting that the U.K. has suffered three sets of terrorist attacks over the past three months, Farage called on leaders in his country to learn from their mistakes and “come clean about what you’ve got wrong.”

“We don’t just want speeches given outside Number 10 Downing Street. We want genuine action.”

“I think what we need to do today is to recognize we have not stopped radicalization taking place in our schools, our prisons and our mosques,” Farage said. “And I don’t think you can deal with the problem until first you come clean about what you’ve got wrong.”

Noting the spread of radicalization across the globe, the UKIP leader lambasted Britain for doing “nothing about it for fear of causing offense, for fear of being thought to be racist with a particular part of the Muslim community.”

“So I’m afraid we have been absolutely hide-bound in this country by political correctness. And I’m afraid that one of those people who simply hasn’t done enough is Theresa May,” Farage said of the U.K. prime minister.

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While delivering a statement outside 10 Downing Street on Sunday, the prime minister said that “enough is enough,” and that there has been “far too much tolerance of extremism in our country.”

“Our society should continue to function in accordance with our values. But when it comes to taking on extremism and terrorism, things need to change,” May said, adding that becoming “far more robust in identifying and stamping [extremism] out across the public sector and across society” will involve “some difficult, and often embarrassing, conversations.”

But Farage believes that the prime minister may have done too little too late, even though he noted that May’s words were “stronger words than we’ve heard before.”

“Well, I hope she actually means it,” Farage said.

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“Usually after one of these attacks, we just get hand-wringing and talk of solidarity. She did say ‘enough is enough,’ but I would argue very strongly we should have reached that conclusion many years ago,” Farage added. “And let’s not forget, she was the home secretary. She was the person in charge of our homeland security for six years, starting in 2010. And when she says we’ve made significant progress over the last few years, I think that’s wrong.”

Farage insisted that the European Union’s policy of allowing “anybody who came to Europe” who received a passport in an EU country to travel to other member countries contributed significantly to the spread of radicalization across the West. This is why Britain’s “Brexit” vote last summer to exit the EU was such a wise move, Farage said.

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“I’m afraid that a lot of people have abused the word ‘refugee’ when they’ve not been genuine refugees to get into parts of Europe, and I’m afraid have had bad intent,” Farage said. “We have to recognize this: The British government, when they were pushed by people like me a couple years ago, said they would use the power to stop people who had fought, for example, in Syria, from coming back into our country. Over 400 known jihadi fighters from Syria have come back into Britain, and we’ve only stopped one.”

“Free movement contributes to this, but also the British government had been too weak. Frankly, we’ve been too politically correct,” Farage added. “So I hope that Theresa May goes a lot further than she’s gone this morning, recognizes the mistakes of the past and says that in future not one person who has fought in Syria will ever be let back into our country.”

Farage said the British people are “slow to anger” and “remarkably tolerant of many things,” but the UKIP leader called for change and for action in the wake of Britain’s third terrorist attack in three months.

“And the mood that I get now is we want some real action,” Farage warned. “We don’t just want speeches given outside Number 10 Downing Street. We want genuine action.”