Nigel Farage vowed to expel tens of thousands of asylum-seekers from the UK, tapping a policy deployed in the US by President Donald Trump as he seeks to guide his populist Reform party to power at the next general election.
Reform would carry out mass deportations of asylum-seekers, as well as removing Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights — “no ifs, no buts” — and scrapping the country’s Human Rights Act to remove legal routes of appeal, Farage said Tuesday in a speech. A Reform-led government would also disapply for five years the 1951 Refugee Convention, he said, dubbing his program “Operation Restoring Justice.”