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Nigel Farage’s ‘dangerous’ mass deportation plan torn to shreds – why it won’t work

By staff27 August 2025No Comments9 Mins Read

Nigel Farage has unveiled draconian proposals for mass deportations of asylum seekers including plans to lock up women and children – but questions have been raised

13:01, 26 Aug 2025Updated 14:05, 26 Aug 2025

Nigel Farage has unveiled draconian proposals for mass deportations of asylum seekers – with plans to lock up women and children.

The Reform UK leader was accused of having fantasy plans with little detail provided on the practicality of deportation flights or on the costings of the proposals. And his inflammatory language was branded “reprehensible” after he indicated that failed migrants being tortured or murdered after being deported was a price worth paying to bring numbers down.

Mr Farage indicated that some 600,000 asylum seekers could be deported in the first parliament of a Reform UK government. And he pledged to scale up detention capacity for asylum seekers to 24,000. But when asked about the details of the plans, the Clacton MP gave flippant answers – simply saying his costs are accurate because his colleague is “really good at maths”.

The Mirror takes a look at his plans – as many raise concerns that they won’t work.

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Children would be locked up under Farage's plan
Children would be locked up under Farage’s plan(Image: Getty Images)

Farage’s deportation deals ‘for the birds’

Mr Farage’s plan to send money to the Taliban to accept Afghan migrants was ripped apart after the press conference. The Reform UK leader failed to answer when asked how much he would be prepared to pay to Iran and the Taliban to take deportees back.

Lib Dem deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: “Reform’s Taliban tribute plan would send British taxpayers’ cash to fund their oppressive regime, fuelling the persecution of Afghan women and children and betraying our brave Armed Forces who sacrificed so much fighting the Taliban. Clearly British values mean nothing to Farage and his band of plastic patriots.”

Under Mr Farage’s plan, migrants would supposedly be sent back to countries like Afghanistan or Iran. Questions have been raised over exactly how this will work – will Iran, a country facing sanctions from the UK, agree to accept planes of migrants? Or will the Taliban be happy to shake hands with Mr Farage on a deal in Afghanistan?

Housing minister Matthew Pennycook said Reform UK’s idea of securing returns agreements with countries like Afghanistan, Iran and Eritrea is “for the birds”. He raised doubts over the feasibility of the plan – and accused Mr Farage of stoking “anger”.

Mr Pennycook said: “What happens if returns agreements are not secured with Eritrea or Sudan? Where do the planes go? What does Reform think is going to happen in the case of Iran, a country that we’re currently sanctioning, they’re just going to agree a returns agreement?

“So we will get on with the practical, hard-headed, unglamorous, step-by-step actions we’re taking to bear down on this problem, rather than the gimmicks being put forward by Reform and other parties.”

Nigel Farage said his costs are correct because his colleague Zia Yusuf is 'really good at maths'
Nigel Farage said his costs are correct because his colleague Zia Yusuf is ‘really good at maths’(Image: PA)

Farage refuses to give costing details

Nigel Farage claimed that his mass deportation plan will save “tens maybe even hundreds of billions of pounds” in the decades ahead.

But Reform has not set out details on how it has reached that estimate. The plans are expected to cost £10billion over the next five years – despite the UK’s asylum system currently costing around £5billion a year to run.

The party said it would save £17billion over the same period, with £42billion saved over the next decade.

Party chief Zia Yusuf suggested the estimates include the costs for running Border Force operations, as well as costs for the NHS, welfare and pensions.

Meanwhile, former Reform UK colleague Rupert Lowe, who pitched a similar mass deportations plan, estimated the cost to be closer to £47.5billion. Asked how the price tag at £5billion could be so much lower, Mr Farage totally dodged the question, simply saying: “Because Zia is really good at maths.”

Farage wants to rip up human rights laws

Nigel Farage said the party would quit the European Convention on Human Rights, a post-Second World War pact that Sir Winston Churchill helped to found.

Former Attorney General Dominic Grieve said this was a “legal and political illusion”, adding: “Even if Britain unpicked itself from international human rights law, our own courts would almost certainly intervene where someone faced a serious risk to life.”

He said leaving the ECHR would mean the UK had to leave the Council of Europe, putting it in the same position as Russia and Belarus. It could also unravel the Good Friday Agreement, risking peace in Northern Ireland, and undermine the security and trade deal with Europe.

Reform’s plan includes repealing the Human Rights Act and replacing it with a British Bill of Rights – something the Tories tried to do and failed.

A reminder – the rights to a fair trial, free elections and freedom of expression are all protected by the Human Rights Act and ECHR.

Reform UK would also disapply protections against torture, including the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture and the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention.

Green Party MP Ellie Chowns added: “The policy proposals themselves are unworkable. They rely on ripping up swathes of international law and would likely face many legal obstacles in the UK courts that could use British common law to block such cruelty.”

Farage said his plans would involve quitting human rights and refugee conventions
Farage said his plans would involve quitting human rights and refugee conventions(Image: Getty Images)

Farage branded ‘reprehensible’ over risk of torture or death

The Reform UK leader is facing fury after appearing sanguine about the risk that failed asylum seekers could be tortured or murdered if they were sent back after entering the UK illegally. He said not sending illegal migrants back risked civil disorder.

He said: “The alternative, of course, is to do nothing. That’s the very clear alternative, is that we just do nothing. We just allow this problem to magnify and grow.

“We head to a point, where there, and I genuinely, I don’t want this to happen, I want our proposals to be accepted so we can prevent civil disorder from happening, but that is the direction this country is headed in. We cannot be responsible for all the sins that take place around the world. It’s just literally impossible.”

Asked if it bothers him that people might be returned to dangerous countries, the Reform UK leader pivoted from the question and said he is concerned about women and girls being “far less safe” in the UK. “What really bothers me is what is happening on the streets of our country,” he says.

Green Party MP Ellie Chowns slammed his language, saying: “More inflammatory rhetoric from Farage at a sensitive time in many communities. This dangerous toxic bluster is clearly aimed at whipping up anger, hatred and even disorder. The way he talks about asylum seekers – our fellow global citizens – is reprehensible.”

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Women and children to be locked up under Farage plan

Women and children would be locked up under Reform’s plans, as Mr Farage said everyone would be detained on arrival.

He claimed some of those coming into Britain came from countries where women were “less than second class citizens”. The Reform UK leader suggested migrants were mainly “male” and represented an “invasion”. This fails to recognise the 31,000 women and girls who claimed asylum in the UK in the year up to June 2025.

It could also mean some women and young girls could face being deported back to countries like Iran and Afghanistan, where they will face repression based purely on their sex, or to Sudan, where the UN has warned that the rape of women and girls is being used as a systematic weapon of war.

Last year, there were more than 5,100 asylum-seeking women and girls who have been identified as victims of modern slavery – usually brought to the UK against their will, a quarter of them aged 17 or under, all forced to work without pay in terrible conditions, and many of them raped on a daily basis in brothels.

Asked about people facing persecution or being tortured upon being deported, Mr Farage insisted it would be an “exercise in common sense”. Pushed specifically on women being sent back to Afghanistan, Reform UK told the media they should instead be talking about men.

Asked what this meant for women and girls, the Reform UK leader said “everyone on arrival will be detained”, committing to detaining children.

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