Nigel Farage has a new answer to Britain's asylum backlog: abolish the asylum system.
Standing in Hythe, Kent on Monday in front of a replica Channel "mega dinghy," the Reform UK leader pledged that a Reform government would suspend the asylum system for a full parliamentary term: all new claims rejected, all pending applications voided, and every claimant marked for deportation, according to the BBC. No refugee status, no humanitarian protection, no tribunals and no resettlement schemes. Home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf put it in three words: "Britain is full."
"The country is currently facing a national security emergency and the first duty of government is to protect its citizens. We cannot accept more asylum seekers while we still have no idea how many people are in the country illegally and the threat they pose. A Reform government will always put British people first and protect our borders." — Nigel Farage, to The Telegraph (emphasis ours)
Translation: rather than fix the queue, Reform proposes to delete it. Regular readers will recall that when Farage first sketched out his migration plan (ECHR exit, an asylum ban for illegal arrivals, migrants moved from hotels to disused RAF bases), we called Reform's plan for dealing with UK illegal migrants a good start (Aug 27, 2025). Fourteen months later, the "start" has become a full stop.
Reform's Plan
