Farage Rows Back on Pledge to Stop Small Boats Within Fortnight of Election Win
Reform UK plans to deport 600,000 migrants over five years and bar asylum claims from small boat arrivals, using a proposed Illegal Migration Bill to enforce rapid removals.
- Nigel Farage has retracted his commitment to stop small boat crossings within two weeks of taking office, stating instead it will depend on passing proposed legislation.
- At the Reform UK conference, Farage indicated he would deport female asylum seekers to the Taliban if elected.
- Attendees at the conference voted to expand immigration policy discussions and criticized the handling of asylum approvals by previous governments.
- Farage clarified that the ability to detain and deport would enable stopping the boats within two weeks of legislation approval.
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Farage rows back on pledge to stop small boats within fortnight of election win
The Reform leader says legislation would need to be passed ‘as quickly as humanely possible’ and arrivals would stop two weeks afterwards.
Farage Vows to Control Illegal Migration
On Friday, September 5th, Nigel Farage said Reform UK would stop the ‘small boats’ if elected. Speaking at the party’s conference in Birmingham, Farage described the government as “in crisis” after Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner resigned over underpaid stamp duty. Farage told supporters We will stop what is a threat to our national security, what is a danger to girls and women on our streets … We will stop the boats and we will detain and…
Nigel Farage said this Friday, at the annual congress of his Reform UK party in Birmingham, that if he were to accede to the UK government, he would be able to stop the crossings of migrants through the English Channel within two weeks after taking office. He declared that he would deport foreign criminals and stop the crossings in small boats from France within that very short period, although he did not provide details on the concrete mechanis…
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