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Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, plans to suspend Britain's asylum system for five years if his party wins the upcoming election. This would include stopping all ongoing asylum applications, closing legal refugee routes, and deporting those with pending cases, affecting around 90,000 individuals currently in the appeals process. The proposal also involves ending resettlement schemes that were recently announced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to admit refugees from countries like Afghanistan and Palestine. Labour has criticized these policies as extreme and a reflection of Farage's desperation amid party challenges.
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On Monday, Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, plans to announce a proposal to suspend the UK's asylum system for five years. Under this plan, all asylum tribunals, legal refugee routes, and resettlement schemes would be scrapped, affecting around 90,000 outstanding asylum and humanitarian protection appeals which would not be heard but rather closed and claimants deported. Farage argues that his policy is necessary due to a national security emergency and states the government’s primary responsibility is to protect British citizens. Labour Party chairwoman Bridget Phillipson criticizes Farage's stance, comparing it to policies of another political entity called Restore and suggesting he seeks extreme measures to handle personal scandals and challenges.
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The Reform UK leader will announce a plan on Monday to suspend the asylum system for a full parliamentary term and declare void any applications in progress.
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All asylum tribunals, legal refugee routes and resettlement schemes will be scrapped.
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tribunals → scrap → ?
A Reform government would not hear the around 90,000 outstanding asylum and humanitarian protection appeals and instead deport the claimants.
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government → hear → claimants
The party would immediately close resettlement schemes that Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood recently said would reopen, with around a quarter of those admitted to the UK expected to be Palestinians and women and girls from Afghanistan.
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quarter → close → Afghanistan
Reform says there is “no mandate” for such schemes and that anyone who has arrived under them would be deported.
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who → say → them
Any refugees granted asylum in the last five years would have their cases reviewed by the Home Office under the plans.
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Mr Farage told The Telegraph: “The country is currently facing a national security emergency and the first duty of government is to protect its citizens.
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duty → tell → citizens
“We cannot accept more asylum seekers while we still have no idea how many people are in the country illegally and the threat they pose.
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“A Reform government will always put British people first and protect our borders.”
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The party will also pledge to use tariffs to force countries to take back migrants.
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It comes after plans unveiled earlier this year to impose “visa freezes” on those wanting to visit the UK legally from countries including Pakistan, Afghanistan and Syria if they do not accept deportees.
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These would halt any new visas for nationals of those countries – as well as Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia – which the party would target due to having significant levels of visas issued to the UK.
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When it comes to other countries that would not be greatly affected by such a measure but have trade with the UK, the party is now saying it would go further with sanctions such as tariffs and airline bans to apply more pressure.
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Labour called the plans “a clear sign of desperation and weakness”.
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Party chairwoman Bridget Phillipson said: “Nigel Farage is casting around for more and more extreme policies as he tries to deal with scandals, police investigations and a growing challenge from Restore — this is a carbon copy of their policy.
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“Running away from basic decency by entirely abandoning those escaping war and persecution might look to Reform like a way of winning a bidding war with other parties on the right, but the vast majority of British people will reject it as an assault on our common values.”
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Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said the proposals “largely copy” the Conservatives.
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“Banning asylum claims by illegal immigrants, abolishing the immigration tribunal and ending Labour’s resettlement routes are all existing Conservative policy.
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“Our detailed BORDERS plan also sees us coming out of the ECHR and ensures all illegal immigrants are removed within a week of arrival – and closes the modern slavery claim and judicial review loopholes, both of which Reform seems to have missed.”
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