The government faces growing pressure over immigration, with a record 111,000 asylum applications made to the UK during the year to June.
Figures released by the Home Office this week said that despite increased applications, spending on asylum in the UK was down by 12%.
The total stood at £4.76bn in the year ending March 2025, down from £5.38bn the previous year.
Small boat arrivals saw a 38% increase from the previous year, with more than half of those arrivals from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iran, Sudan and Syria.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said that Labour had “inherited a broken immigration and asylum system that the previous government left in chaos”.
She said the new government had strengthened immigration controls and “sharply increased” enforcement and returns.
Respnding to the Reform leader’s proposals, Angela Eagle, Labour’s border security minister, said: “Nigel Farage is simply plucking numbers out of the air, another pie in the sky policy from a party that will say anything for a headline.”
“We are getting a grip of the broken asylum system,” she added. “Making sure those with no right to be here are removed or deported.”
The Conservatives said Reform UK was recycling their ideas.
“This big reveal is just recycling many ideas the Conservatives have already announced,” said shadow home secretary Chris Philp.
“Nigel Farage previously claimed mass deportations were impossible, and now he says it’s his policy,” Philp added. “Who knows what he’ll say next.”