Nigel Farage hits panic button and vows to ban asylum seekers for five years
Nigel Farage's latest announcement comes as Reform UK continue to struggle with falling poll ratings(Image: Gary Oakley/PA Wire)
TL;DR
- Reform UK pledges to ban all asylum grants for five years if elected.
- All asylum tribunals, legal refugee routes, and resettlement schemes will be closed.
- Existing asylum and humanitarian protection appeals (approx. 90,000) would be dismissed, with claimants deported.
- Cases of refugees granted asylum in the last five years would be reviewed.
- Reform UK intends to use tariffs to compel countries to take back migrants.
- The party previously proposed visa freezes for countries not accepting deportees.
- The announcement follows flagging poll ratings and donor scandals.