{"id":800365,"date":"2026-10-12T17:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800365\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T17:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:08:12","slug":"children-and-women-included-in-reform-plan-to-immediately-deport-90000-asylum-seekers-reform-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800365\/","title":{"rendered":"Children and women included in Reform plan to immediately deport 90,000 asylum seekers | Reform UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Children and mothers would not be exempt from plans by Reform UK<\/a> to immediately deport 90,000 asylum seekers and impose a five-year ban on people being granted asylum.<\/p>\n

The party\u2019s most hardline immigration policies to date were condemned by refugee charities and others as \u201cunworkable\u201d and an abandonment of Britain\u2019s tradition of helping victims of war after they were announced by Nigel Farage<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

New claims \u2060would be automatically rejected and failed applicants would be returned either to their home countries or a safe third country while a Reform government would impose tariffs, visa bans or \u200bairspace restrictions on countries refusing to accept \u200cthe return of asylum \u200cseekers.<\/p>\n

Asked if children would be exempt, Farage told a press conference in Kent: \u201cIf you allow Palestinian or Afghan women to come as well as children, that may well sound compassionate given the circumstances in that country. However, as soon as you do that you open the door to family reunions, to husbands coming, to partners coming, before you know it you have plenty of young men coming as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood<\/a>, said last month that approximately a quarter of arrivals under the reopened UK Resettlement Scheme (UKRS) will consist of Afghan women and girls fleeing Taliban rule and Palestinians who have fled Gaza. A Home Office source said Farage was mistaken in his claim as those coming under the scheme will not have reunion rights.<\/p>\n

Appearing in front of a replica of the type of inflatable boat that he said was now being used to cross the Channel, Farage said a Reform government would also review the status of anyone granted asylum since 2024.<\/p>\n

Those coming from countries deemed safe by a Reform home secretary would lose their permission to remain in the UK, while all legal resettlement routes would also be abolished, except for those set up for Ukrainians in the wake of the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A 17-page document published by the party on Monday envisages the \u201cembedding\u201d of immigration enforcement throughout the state, and effectively society, by including immigration checks in food safety, housing and licensing inspections. People targeted for deportation would be identified from data on water or electricity usage, \u201caerial imaging\u201d and complaints from neighbours.<\/p>\n

Zia Yusuf, the party\u2019s would-be home secretary, said Reform planned to deport \u201cnorth of 1 million people\u201d but insisted the party was \u201cnot in the business of sending people to be killed or tortured\u201d, telling the press conference there would be \u201cthird-country options\u201d for \u201cedge cases\u201d.<\/p>\n

Reform UK\u2019s home affairs spokesperson, Zia Yusuf, during a press conference in Kent on Monday. Photograph: Gareth Fuller\/PA<\/p>\n

However, the Refugee Council said that closing Britain\u2019s asylum system would \u201ccause chaos\u201d and desperate people who would still arrive on the country\u2019s shores would be driven underground instead of entering an orderly system.<\/p>\n

Jon Featonby, the chief policy analyst at the charity, said: \u201cThese unworkable proposals would see us abandon our proud tradition of offering safety to victims of war, which our ancestors established in response to the horrors of world war two.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Labour party\u2019s chair, Bridget Phillipson, said the Reform UK leader was \u201ccasting around for more and more extreme policies\u201d as he faced questions about his own finances<\/a> and the threat posed by rivals Restore Britain, which appeared to have cost his party the opportunity of finishing third in the St Pancras and Holborn byelection.<\/p>\n

Phillipson said that Labour could \u201ccontrol immigration and get numbers down with serious action, not by abandoning the asylum system altogether\u201d.<\/p>\n

The new Reform policy was described by Luke Tryl, the UK director of More in Common, as an \u201ceye-catching\u201d move that was perhaps aimed at stemming the growth of Rupert Lowe\u2019s Restore Britain party on Farage\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Tryl added that a policy to stop asylum entirely ran contrary to the desire of a majority of Reform voters, of whom only 14% wanted to see a cessation of Britain welcoming people fleeing persecution and war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Children and mothers would not be exempt from plans by Reform UK to immediately deport 90,000 asylum seekers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-800365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}