{"id":375102,"date":"2025-08-26T14:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375102\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:06:10","slug":"u-k-hard-right-reform-party-says-it-will-mass-deport-migrants-if-it-wins-next-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375102\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. hard-right Reform party says it will mass deport migrants if it wins next election"},"content":{"rendered":"

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British Reform party leader Nigel Farage poses in front of a mock departures board during a press conference in a hangar at Oxford Airport in Kidlington, England, on Tuesday.Joanna Chan\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain\u2019s hard-right Reform UK party, said Tuesday that if he wins the next election he will leave the European Convention on Human Rights and immediately detain and deport anyone who arrives in the country illegally, including children.<\/p>\n

Farage laid out his plans to tackle illegal immigration following a significant rise in the number of migrants who arrive by boats across the English Channel, and weeks of protests over the government\u2019s use of hotels to house asylum seekers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you come to the U.K. illegally, you will be detained and deported and never, ever allowed to stay, period,\u201d Farage told a press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mood in the country around this issue is a mix between total despair and rising anger,\u201d he added, claiming there is now \u201ca genuine threat to public order\u201d if no action is taken.<\/p>\n

He said the issue of \u201chow we deal with children is much more complicated,\u201d but added: \u201cWomen and children, everybody on arrival will be detained.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite holding just four of the 650 seats in the House of Commons, Farage \u2018s party has gained momentum by seizing on public frustration over successive governments\u2019 inability to bring down the number of migrants coming by boat. National polls have suggested that support for Reform equals or surpasses that of the ruling Labour Party and the Conservatives.<\/p>\n

Farage, who has long sought to link problems such as public health care and housing to migrant arrivals, reiterated his stance that the U.K. is being \u201cinvaded\u201d by migrants. He said he would introduce policies to mass deport hundreds of thousands of people over the first five years of being in government.<\/p>\n

Reform will leave the ECHR and repeal or \u201cdisapply\u201d all other rights treaties to bar all asylum claims and ensure migrants who arrive without authorization are deported, he added. It will scale up the capacity of detention facilities and secure deals with countries including Afghanistan, Eritrea and Iran, to return migrants.<\/p>\n

Asked about the prospect of asylum seekers being tortured or killed if they were sent back to countries they fled from, Farage said: \u201cThe alternative is to do nothing … We cannot be responsible for all the sins that take place around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Almost 29,000 people have crossed the English Channel by boat so far in 2025, up about 50 per cent from the same period last year. On Monday, 659 migrants arrived in the U.K. by boat.<\/p>\n

A much larger number of people \u2013 over 111,000 \u2013 applied for asylum in the U.K. in the year up to June, official figures show.<\/p>\n

Reform\u2019s deportation plans echo similar tough migration policies by Germany, which deported dozens of Afghan men to their homeland last month.<\/p>\n

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has ditched the Conservative administration\u2019s flagship plan to send migrants who arrived by unauthorized means to Rwanda. Instead, he has pinned hopes on a deal agreed with France last month to send some migrants who cross the English Channel on dinghies and inflatable boats back to France.<\/p>\n

U.K. officials have suggested the \u201cone in, one out\u201d plan is a major breakthrough, despite the initial program involving a limited number of people.<\/p>\n

The government is also looking to speed up the processing of asylum claims. Officials have housed tens of thousands of migrants awaiting their asylum outcome in hotels at public expense \u2013 a controversial policy that has long simmered but tipped into protests in recent weeks after a hotel resident allegedly tried to kiss a 14-year-old girl and was charged with sexual assault. The man has denied the accusation.<\/p>\n

Anti-migrant demonstrators, as well as counterprotests, have flared after local authorities won a temporary injunction last week to shut down the Bell Hotel in Epping, on the outskirts of London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: British Reform party leader Nigel Farage poses in front of a mock departures…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[6934,6925,6935,1500,6918,748,6936,943,6917,6930,6931,6927,6919,6916,1700,2266,393,728,6929,6923,6946,6920,6921,1234,4884,6926,388,3611,6607,603,6941,6942,1144,6944,6939,6943,6937,6940,6922,6932,6933,285,3027,6938,712,6924,53,183,6928,16,15,727,1764,263,6945],"class_list":{"0":"post-375102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-alberta","10":"tag-arts-news","11":"tag-bc","12":"tag-breaking-news","13":"tag-breaking-news-video","14":"tag-britain","15":"tag-british-columbia","16":"tag-canada","17":"tag-canada-news","18":"tag-canada-sports","19":"tag-canada-sports-news","20":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","21":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","22":"tag-canadian-news","23":"tag-economy","24":"tag-education","25":"tag-england","26":"tag-environment","27":"tag-federal-government","28":"tag-foreign-news","29":"tag-globe-and-mail","30":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","31":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","32":"tag-government","33":"tag-great-britain","34":"tag-life-news","35":"tag-lifestyle","36":"tag-local-news","37":"tag-manitoba","38":"tag-national-news","39":"tag-new-brunswick","40":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","41":"tag-northern-ireland","42":"tag-northwest-territories","43":"tag-nova-scotia","44":"tag-nunavut","45":"tag-ontario","46":"tag-pei","47":"tag-photos","48":"tag-political-news","49":"tag-political-opinion","50":"tag-politics","51":"tag-politics-news","52":"tag-quebec","53":"tag-scotland","54":"tag-sports-news","55":"tag-technology","56":"tag-travel","57":"tag-trudeau","58":"tag-uk","59":"tag-united-kingdom","60":"tag-us-news","61":"tag-wales","62":"tag-world-news","63":"tag-yukon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}