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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Albert Toth and Alicja Hagopian

How Nigel Farage’s plan to scrap indefinite leave to remain could put thousands at risk of deportation

Reform UK has said it could deport hundreds of thousands of legal migrants from the UK and severely tighten the rules for people looking to migrate to the country under new plans unveiled by Nigel Farage.

Sharing disputed figures that claim the policy would save more than £200bn, the party said that, if it comes to power, it would scrap indefinite leave to remain (ILR), the main route by which migrants are able to settle in the UK and which is open to people who have worked and lived in the UK legally for five years.

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