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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot and Aletha Adu

The moral and economic costs of Farage’s plan to deport up to 600,000 asylum seekers

Nigel Farage launching Reform UK’s immigration and asylum policy
Nigel Farage launching Reform UK’s immigration and asylum policy on Tuesday. Photograph: Joanna Chan/AP

Nigel Farage has set out a plan that he claims would lead to the mass deportation of up to 600,000 asylum seekers if Reform were to be elected to power. The plan involves ripping up human rights law, building costly detention infrastructure and potentially paying corrupt and totalitarian regimes billions to accept people put on deportation flights.

Here are the key planks of the policies – and what the moral and economic costs would be.

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