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Nigel Farage calls illegal migration a “scourge”. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has labelled illegal immigration in the UK a “scourge,” describing it as an issue of historic and unprecedented scale. Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, he outlined his party’s plans to tackle small boat crossings pledging to detain and deport people entering the country illegally. Farage proposes leaving the European Court of Human Rights, repealing the Human Rights Act and disapplying treaties like the Refugee Convention to make removals easier. Reform also wants anyone entering illegally to be barred from claiming asylum. Polling suggests the party’s popularity is growing, prompting Farage to outline what he would do if Reform UK won power, including imposing a legal duty on the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to remove illegal entrants. Labour dismissed the plans as lacking substance, calling them “written on the back of a fag packet.”
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