Farage Sets £10 Billion Plan for Five Daily Migrant Deportation Flights

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has announced a £10 billion plan to detain and deport migrants who cross the English Channel in small boats, calling the situation a “national emergency.” In an interview with The Times and other media, Farage said that if his party comes to power, it would run five charter flights a day to remove hundreds of thousands of people who arrive illegally.

Farage said his government would pull Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights and other refugee agreements. This would end the right for Channel arrivals to claim asylum or challenge deportations. The plan includes holding up to 24,000 people in temporary detention centres on unused Royal Air Force bases. Setting these up would cost £2.5 billion at first, with the whole programme costing about £10 billion.

Reform UK would try to make deals with Afghanistan, Eritrea, Rwanda, and Albania to take back deported people, and might use Ascension Island for offshore processing if needed. People who choose to leave voluntarily could get £2,500 under a “self-deportation” scheme.

Farage said these steps are needed to keep people safe, noting that 37,000 people arrived in small boats last year, mostly from Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Vietnam, and Eritrea, but only 3% were removed. Immigration and asylum are now the top public concern in opinion polls, and Reform UK has gained more support than the ruling Conservatives since April, putting pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to take a tougher stance.

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