Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has described illegal immigration as a “scourge” which is affecting the country on a “historic and unprecedented” scale.Farage will outline his party’s plans to tackle small boats crossings later on Tuesday, pledging to detain and deport people coming into the UK illegally.He will also propose significant legal changes and question whether Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is on the side of human rights lawyers or the British people.To make removals easier, Reform is promising to leave the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), repeal the Human Rights Act and disapply international treaties like the Refugee Convention.With four MPs, Reform UK is a small force in the Commons.But polling suggests its popularity has grown significantly – so significantly that Farage talks in today’s Daily Telegraph about what he plans to do if his party wins power at the next general election. Farage wants to introduce a legal obligation on Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to remove people who arrive illegally – an approach which was tried by the last Conservative government.Reform also wants to ban anyone entering illegally from ever being able to claim asylum.”Under these new plans, if you come to the UK illegally you will be ineligible for asylum. No ifs, no buts,” Farage wrote in the Telegraph, as he called on politicians to put the UK first.Labour said Reform’s plans had been written on the back of a fag packet – and there was no substance on delivery.Government minister Matthew Pennycook said the plan relied on other countries agreeing to accept deported migrants.He told BBC Breakfast: “What happens if Reform cannot in that scenario negotiate returns agreements with the Taliban in Afghanistan? What happens if they can’t get a returns agreement with Iran, a country curr …
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[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnReform UK leader Nigel Farage has described illegal immigration as a “scourge” which is affecting the country on a “historic and unprecedented” scale.Farage will outline his party’s plans to tackle small boats crossings later on Tuesday, pledging to detain and deport people coming into the UK illegally.He will also propose significant legal changes and question whether Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is on the side of human rights lawyers or the British people.To make removals easier, Reform is promising to leave the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), repeal the Human Rights Act and disapply international treaties like the Refugee Convention.With four MPs, Reform UK is a small force in the Commons.But polling suggests its popularity has grown significantly – so significantly that Farage talks in today’s Daily Telegraph about what he plans to do if his party wins power at the next general election. Farage wants to introduce a legal obligation on Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to remove people who arrive illegally – an approach which was tried by the last Conservative government.Reform also wants to ban anyone entering illegally from ever being able to claim asylum.”Under these new plans, if you come to the UK illegally you will be ineligible for asylum. No ifs, no buts,” Farage wrote in the Telegraph, as he called on politicians to put the UK first.Labour said Reform’s plans had been written on the back of a fag packet – and there was no substance on delivery.Government minister Matthew Pennycook said the plan relied on other countries agreeing to accept deported migrants.He told BBC Breakfast: “What happens if Reform cannot in that scenario negotiate returns agreements with the Taliban in Afghanistan? What happens if they can’t get a returns agreement with Iran, a country curr …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]
