Nigel Farage’s Deportation Plan

Newscast

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Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Today, Reform UK has set out a five-year plan to detain and deport all migrants who arrive in the UK without permission and suggested 600,000 people could be sent back over five years.

Under the plan, named Operation Restoring Justice, Reform UK would bar anyone who comes to the UK on small boats from claiming asylum, and strike deals with countries to return those people. The proposals could face legal challenges and political opposition, with Labour branding it unworkable and the Conservatives accusing Reform UK of recycling their ideas.

Adam is joined by Tom Symonds, BBC News correspondent and Dr Alice Donald, Associate Professor of Human Rights Law, Middlesex University.

We also heard Adam’s interview with the Deputy Leader of Reform Richard Tice on 5 Live.

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0:54.9	with this episode of Newscast. We're going to focus on one story, which is Reform's big policy
0:59.4	launch today of their new migration policy. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy slimmer
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1:28.4	for another week for Matt Chorley on Five Live, and you can listen to that two to four every weekday.
1:34.3	That show and this episode of newscast is going to be focused on one big story though, which is
1:39.0	Reform UK's big policy proposals for dealing with what they call illegal immigration. That's deporting people who come to the UK in an unauthorised way.
1:50.0	And this is a package of measures that a reform UK government would put in place.
1:54.9	Basically meaning anyone coming to the UK without permission would be sent back either to their home country or a third country
2:01.4	and there would be no way for them to claim asylum and ultimately end up as a refugee in the UK.
2:08.2	And a big part of this would require the UK to pull out of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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