UK’s Farage unveils plan to deport asylum seekers, warns of ‘civil disorder’

Nigel Farage, leader of Britain’s anti-migration Reform UK party, announced a plan on Tuesday to repeal human rights laws to allow for mass deportations of asylum seekers, action he said was needed to prevent “major civil disorder”.

Farage said his party, which is leading in national opinion polls, would remove Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), repeal the Human Rights Act and nullify other international treaties that have been used to block the forced deportation of asylum seekers.

“We are not far away from major civil disorder,” Farage said at a press conference. “It is an invasion, as these young men illegally break into our country.”

The announcement comes against the backdrop of sustained, small-scale protests in recent weeks outside hotels housing asylum seekers, in response to concerns about public safety after some individuals were charged with sexual assault.

Opinion polls show that immigration has overtaken the economy as British voters’ biggest concern.

Reform UK – which only has four members of parliament but is ahead in every survey of voting intentions – is putting Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer under growing pressure to tackle the issue, although the next election is not due until 2029.

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