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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.

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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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GB News broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Friday, September 5, 2025.
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