Farage confirms he wants to deport women back to Taliban in Afghanistan

Nigel Farage has confirmed helium wants to deport women asylum seekers backmost to the Taliban successful Afghanistan if helium becomes premier minister.

The Reform UK leader's presumption connected the taxable has not been clear, with him antecedently accidental helium would nonstop women backmost to the fundamentalist authorities that took implicit aft occidental militaries withdrew, earlier past saying helium wouldn't.

Mr Farage was speaking to Sky News' governmental editor Beth Rigby astatine the Reform UK enactment league successful Birmingham.

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When asked if helium would "detain" women and children and "send them back", the Clacton MP said "yes".

Challenged connected erstwhile helium said successful August that helium was not "discussing" women and children, Mr Farage claimed this was a notation to his tendency to seeing men detained connected accomplishment successful the UK.

Women and children - who get successful acold smaller numbers - would beryllium treated differently, helium said.

He claimed that the UK has a "duty of care" if a four-year-old arrives arsenic successful a dinghy, for example.

"For clarity, those that transverse the English Channel volition beryllium detained and deported, men and women," Mr Farage went on.

"Children, we'll person to deliberation about."

The Reform person besides rowed backmost connected his pledge to halt each boats wrong 2 weeks if helium is elected premier minister.

Speaking to the league yesterday, Mr Farage said: "You cannot travel present illegally and enactment - we volition halt the boats wrong 2 weeks of winning government."

But speaking to Beth Rigby today, helium changed tack - saying "the passing of legislation" would beryllium required.

He said the boats would past beryllium stopped wrong 2 weeks, oregon sooner.

In the interrogation with Rigby, Mr Farage tried to assertion helium did not accidental helium would extremity the boats wrong 2 weeks of "winning government".

But the video of his speech, arsenic good arsenic the transcript released by Reform UK, intelligibly amusement him saying: "We volition halt the boats wrong 2 weeks of winning government."

When asked wherefore helium wouldn't beryllium capable to halt the boats wrong 2 weeks of winning government, Mr Farage said it was intolerable and "no one" tin forestall them crossing the Channel.

The Reform UK person said the instrumentality helium wants to present volition beryllium called the Illegal Migration Act erstwhile it is passed by parliament.

He confirmed his docket includes leaving the European Convention connected Human Rights, shutting down asylum hotels and lodging radical astatine RAF bases instead, arsenic good arsenic deporting Channel migrants.

Mr Farage besides claimed that deportation flights would besides statesman wrong 2 weeks of the instrumentality changing, and this operation of factors would halt radical from wanting to question from France.

This strategy each depends connected Reform UK winning the adjacent wide predetermination - which Labour does not person to telephone until 2029.

However, Mr Farage says helium believes the authorities volition illness successful 2027 owed to economical unit and different factors.

Reform are presently good wide of Labour and the Conservatives successful the polling, and are targeting adjacent year's Welsh, Scottish and English section predetermination to effort and triumph much powerfulness successful councils and nationalist assemblies.