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Farage unveils m*** deportation plans for government
Laying out his proposals, Farage said Reform would:
Leave the European convention on human rights “no ifs, no buts”
Repeal the 1998 Human Rights Act
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention for five years and any other “barriers that can be used by lawyers in this country to prevent deportations”
Create a legal duty for the home secretary to remove people that come illegally
Detain all illegal migrants who come and we will do so “immediately”.
Key events
Kolb***ia Haoussou, director of survivor leadership and influencing at the charity Freedom from Torture, has reacted to Reform saying it would disapply the 1951 Refugee Contention and the UN Convention Against Torture.
Haoussou said:
This is not who we are as a country. Here in the UK, public support for upholding the torture ban has grown significantly in recent years.
People know that turning a blind eye is just not an option. Men, women and children are coming to the UK looking for safety. They are fleeing the unimaginable horrors of torture in places like Afghanistan, Sudan and Iran. And they desperately need our protection.
At Freedom from Torture, we see every day the human cost of torture: how it destroys lives and tears at the fabric of societies.
The UN Convention Against Torture is a promise to defend our shared right to live a life free from torture. For centuries, the UK has been a leading voice against torture, helping to shape the very international laws that Reform proposes we destroy.
These laws were created in the aftermath of the second world war to protect us all. If Britain were to abandon this legacy it would hand repressive regimes around the world a gift and undermine one of humanity’s clearest moral lines. We must not stay silent.
Asked whether Reform would make an exception for Afghans who supported Britain, he said: “Absolutely. There were brave Afghans who supported the British forces and American forces during that 20 year war, who, of course, absolutely of course, deserve recompense for the enormous risks they took.”
He added:
This country has taken half a million refugees since the Brexit referendum. This country is not closed-minded to groups that genuinely face persecution, to groups that genuinely are refugees.
Farage can’t name specific RAF bases Reform would use to hold migrants before deportations
Aubrey Allegretti, the Times’ chief political correspondent, asked Farage what specific disused or surplus RAF bases he would use to hold migrants or to operate deportation filghts from. Farage could not name any specific locations despite this being a major part of his deportation proposal. He said:
The last government – and this one – have been housing people in military bases. One or two campaigns have stopped them using certain, particular geographical locations but quite a few have been used around the country.
So you get put into a military base but you are free to walk the streets at night, you are free to possibly even go and drive a delivery bike for somebody.
The military bases that we will use people will be detained. They won’t be out walking the streets on the road to being deported.
So I would suggest to you that whichever geographical locations are chosen, local residents will be far less concerned by this plan than they would young men being free 24 hours a day to walk through their village or walk through their town.
Farage says women and children would be detained under m*** deportation plans
Farage confirms that women and children would also be detained and deported under Reform’s plans.
Answering a question from Sky News’ political correspondent Serena Barker Singh, Farage said: “Women and children, everybody on arrival will be detained, and I’ve accepted already that how we deal with children is a much more complicated and difficult issue.”
The Reform leader added:
But the people protesting outside the Bell Hotel and at 30 migrant hotels on Saturday around the country weren’t doing it because of the few children coming.
They were doing it because over three-quarters of those that come are young undo***ented males who come from cultures that are entirely different from ours, who are very unlikely to ***imilate into our community, who pose a risk to women and girls, and some of them, I’m afraid, pose a risk to national security.
About 600,000 asylum seekers could be deported in the first parliament of a Reform government, Farage has suggested.
Answering a media question on the parameters of the m*** deportation plans, Farage said: “How far back you go with this is the difficulty, and I accept that.”
Pointing to queries about what would happen to children, he added: “I’m not standing here telling you all of this is easy, all of this is straightforward.
“And we had of course with the Windrush row, we had a situation there where people who’d come 50, 60, in fact nearly 70 years ago, had faulty paperwork. So there is an exercise of common sense that has to come in here.”
Turning to Zia Yusuf, Farage said: “But do we realistically think, Zia, we can deport five, 600,000 people in the lifetime of the first parliament?” Yusuf replied: “Totally.”
Farage is taking questions from the press now. The first is from the BBC’s Ben Wright who asks him if he minds the fact his plans risks asylum seekers being sent back to countries where they could face torture or even death.
Farage says it does bother him, before adding: “What really bothers me is what is happening on the streets of our country. What really bothers me is what is happening to British citizens.
“What really bothers me is… and you’ve seen this from the Bell Hotel onwards, the growing concern with justifiable evidence that women and girls are far less safe on the streets than they were before this began. So it’s all about whose side are you on?”
Reform will build capacity to ‘detain up to 24,000 illegal migrants at a time’, Yusuf says
Zia Yusuf, head of Reform’s government efficiency department, spoke briefly after Nigel Farage. Here is some of what he said:
If you come to the UK illegally, you will receive a lifetime ban from ever coming back to our country, re entering after deportation will become a criminal offence punishable by up to five years in prison.
Deliberately destroying your identity do***ents having come here illegally will also become a criminal offence punishable by up to five years in prison.
We will pair this legislative reset with a UK deportation command – that is a dedicated force to identifying, detaining and deporting illegal migrants at scale.
We’ll create a cutting edge data fusion centre that will automatically share data between the police, the home office, the NHS, the DVLA, HMRC and banks.
This will allow deportation command to relentlessly track down and detain all those who entered our country illegally.
We’ll build capacity to detain up to 24,000 illegal migrants at a time. That enables us to deport up to 288,000 illegal migrants a year. Detention will mean deportation, no chance of bail, no chance of absconding.
Farage unveils m*** deportation plans for government
Laying out his proposals, Farage said Reform would:
Leave the European convention on human rights “no ifs, no buts”
Repeal the 1998 Human Rights Act
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention for five years and any other “barriers that can be used by lawyers in this country to prevent deportations”
Create a legal duty for the home secretary to remove people that come illegally
Detain all illegal migrants who come and we will do so “immediately”.
Farage claims that his party’s proposals could save hundreds of billions of pounds over the next decade. He says an “eye watering” amount of money is currently being spent dealing with illegal immigration (he talks about the operations in the English Channel and the amount of court and police time taken up).
Farage says Britain and France are ‘colluding in support of criminal activity’
Farage accuses the British and French governments of “colluding in their support of criminal activity” in their response to small boats’ crossings, which he is framing as a crisis. The Reform party leader said:
And even as we speak, despite the £800m we have given the French, even as we speak, there are French naval vessels blocking these boats across to a 12-mile line where they will be picked up by Border Force or our volunteers for the RNLI if it’s a busy day and Border Force simply can’t cope.
And now what happens is the French give them all lifejackets, and when they’re picked up by Border Force, Border Force gives the lifejackets back to the French so they can reuse them on the next journey.
I mean we are literally witnessing two governments colluding in their support of criminal activity.
Farage says the growing anger over the last few weeks (seen through demonstrations outside hotels housing asylum seekers across the country) is a “cultural one”.
In the sense that many of these young men come from countries in which women aren’t even second-cl*** citizens and frankly the public have now just had enough.
And what began as a protest of mothers and concerned citizens outside the Bell Hotel in Epping has now spread right across the country.
And all of it really poses one big, fundamental question: whose side are you on? Are you on the side of women and children being safe on our streets or are you on the side of outdated, international treaties backed up by a series of dubious courts.
