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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn Political correspondent

Children and mothers included in Reform plan to immediately deport 90,000 asylum seekers

Reform’s leader, Nigel Farage
Reform’s leader, Nigel Farage, said the proposals were intended so as not to ‘open the door to family reunions’. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Children and mothers would not be exempt from plans by Reform UK to immediately deport 90,000 asylum seekers and impose a five-year ban on people being granted asylum.

The party’s most hardline immigration policies to date were condemned by refugee charities and others as “unworkable” and an abandonment of Britain’s tradition of helping victims of war after they were announced by Nigel Farage on Monday.

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