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Greg Heffer – Daily Mail Aug 26, 2025

Nigel Farage today vowed to deport 600,000 asylum seekers within five years if Reform UK wins the next general election.

In a speech in Oxfordshire this morning, Mr Farage unveiled his party’s ‘Operation Restoring Justice’ proposals to tackle the Channel migrant crisis.

He warned anger among Brits over an ‘invasion’ of the South Coast by small boats represented a ‘genuine threat to public order.

Speaking at London Oxford Airport, Mr Farage argued the only way to stop migrants arriving in Britain via dinghies was by ‘detaining and deporting absolutely anyone’.

‘The mood in the country around this issue is a mix between total despair and rising anger,’ he said.

‘And I would say this, that without action, without somehow the contract between the Government and the people being renewed, without some trust coming back, then I fear deeply that that anger will grow.

‘In fact, I think there is now, as a result of this, a genuine threat to public order.’

Mr Farage is vowing – if he becomes PM – that all those arriving in Britain on small boats and via other illegal routes will be detained and then deported.

He claimed some 600,000 asylum seekers could be deported in the first term of a Reform government under the party’s plans.

Mr Farage confirmed women and children would be among those detained under his party’s plans, while he was sanguine about failed asylum seekers being tortured or murdered if they were deported after entering the UK illegally.

Reform is pledging to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and scrap the Human Rights Act, which enshrines the convention in UK law.

It is promising to sign migrant returns deals with countries such as Afghanistan and Eritrea, but also house migrants in ‘third countries’ such as Rwanda and Albania.

Under Reform’s plans, British overseas territories such as Ascension Island will be used as a ‘fallback’ option for sending migrants.

Mr Farage accused the UK and French governments of ‘colluding’ in support of criminal activity by failing to tackle people-smuggling gangs operating across the Channel.

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