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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kiran Stacey Policy editor

Farage aims for hardline vibes with his mass deportation plan

Nigel Farage poses in front of a mock airport departures board with the word ‘illegal’ repeated on consecutive rows
Nigel Farage has previously sought distance from the migration rhetoric of the far right. Photograph: Joanna Chan/AP

Halfway into his press conference on Tuesday – during which he announced his party would deport asylum seekers en masse if it entered government – Nigel Farage sounded a note of triumphalism.

“One of the most interesting things about this press conference … is the questions being asked are about the practicalities of individual pieces of implementation,” he said. “What I notice is there is very little pushback from the media against the idea that we really are in very, very big trouble in this country.”

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