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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Aine Fox

Ex-soldier: Paying Taliban to take migrants ‘vile perversion of Britishness’

A former Army officer has branded any attempt to pay the Taliban to take people deported from the UK “a vile perversion of what it is to be British”.

His comments came after Reform UK’s leader Nigel Farage raised the possibility of his party negotiating a returns agreement with the Afghan government if his party came to power – amid plans proposed last week for “mass deportations” to address migration.

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