(MENAFN) Hard-right political figure Nigel Farage presented a controversial new immigration policy on Tuesday, pledging “mass deportations” of individuals arriving in the UK via small boats, should he assume the role of prime minister.

As the head of Reform UK, Farage outlined a comprehensive five-year initiative aimed at drastically altering the UK’s approach to illegal immigration.

The plan includes withdrawing from international human rights obligations, incarcerating all new arrivals—including women and children—in expansive detention facilities, and forcibly sending individuals back to countries where they might face imprisonment, torture, or even death.

Under this proposed policy, deportations would occur at a rapid pace, with five chartered flights departing daily.

Farage described the influx of small boat crossings as an “invasion,” arguing that many of the incoming individuals are “illegally breaking into our country.”

Addressing supporters, he insisted, “What other word could possibly describe what has been going on? It is an invasion.”

Reform UK projects that their strategy could result in the removal of approximately 600,000 individuals over the next five years.

Dubbed Operation Restoring Justice, the initiative would prohibit anyone arriving by small boat from seeking asylum in the UK. The party also aims to negotiate repatriation agreements with various countries of origin.

Although Farage had earlier dismissed the idea of large-scale deportations as a “political impossibility,” he now insists that Reform UK has “a credible plan, so that we can deport hundreds of thousands of people over the five years of a Reform government.”

In response to concerns about the feasibility of such an undertaking, senior party member Zia Yusuf asserted, “Totally, yeah,” when asked if the numbers were achievable.

If implemented, the plan would represent a significant escalation in deportation activity.

According to the Home Office, the UK conducted 10,652 asylum-related deportations between January and June of 2025.

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