Nigel Farage vows to ban asylum seekers and deport 90,000 people if Reform wins

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage during his visit to Hyndburn in Lancashire(Picture: Gary Oakley/PA Wire)

Nigel Farage has claimed he will stop any refugees from being granted asylum for five years if he is elected.

The Reform leader announces he will suspend the asylum system for a full parliamentary term and declare void any applications in progress.

All asylum tribunals, legal refugee routes and resettlement schemes will be scrapped.

A Reform government would not hear the around 90,000 outstanding asylum and humanitarian protection appeals and instead deport the claimants.

The party highlighted Pakistan, Somalia, Eritrea, Syria, Afgh...