Nigel Farage has announced that if in power Reform will create a £10bn, five-year “emergency” programme that it claims will fix the asylum crisis and save the Exchequer “hundreds of billions” of pounds over the coming decades.
Reform says it will leave the European Convention on Human Rights, derogate from the UN Convention Against Torture and repeal the Human Rights Act, in order to gain the legal powers to return asylum seekers.
Zia Yusuf, the party chairman,speaking alongside Nigel Farage said his party would pay the Taliban to accept the return of migrants who entered Britain illegally
Farage speaking in Oxfordshire warned those arriving illegally into the U.K. that ‘You will be detained and deported and never, ever allowed to stay!’ adding that “the only way we will stop the boats” is by “detaining and deporting absolutely anyone who comes via that route”
Farage accused Britain and France as bring two governments colluding in their support of criminal activity and said that he would deport up to 600,000 migrants in his first term in office if he wins the next election
‘The mood in this country is a mix between total dispair and rising anger. I fear that anger will grow…’ he added
Reform is pledging to build new detention facilities to house 24,000 migrants at any one time in just 18 months.
Critics point out that Unilaterally withdrawing from various international agreements is fraught with legal and diplomatic challenges.
The pledge to leave the ECHR and what that will mean for the Good Friday Agreement, which the convention underpins. and leaving the ECHR would hit the post-Brexit trade agreement the Government has secured with the EU, hitting trade and ultimately economic growth.
