WATCH: Nigel Farage outlines deportation plan and warns illegal migration is a 'genuine threat' to national security

Georgia Pearce
Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:30:44 +0000

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has outlined his plan to deport 'hundreds of thousands' of illegal migrants from Britain.

Addressing a press conference in Westminster, Mr Farage said: "I was shocked to learn that there are 15 London boroughs that are now sanctuary boroughs, which means if you come into Britain illegally, you literally go to the top of the list. You're literally at the front of the queue over families who've been part of communities and paid into systems for a very, very long time.

"It is unfair. It is immoral. It is wrong at every level, and it's one of those issues, if I can't think of a bigger one, in which the public's faith in the whole democratic system has broken down repeated promises from prime ministers to stop the boats or smash the gangs, all of which have come literally to nowt.

"And the timing of this, of course, ahead of the warmer summer months, when I have little doubt there'll be many tens of thousands more people who will come into Britain posing a threat not just to our finances, posing a threat to too many of our women and girls.

"But equally, given the situation the world is in, posing a genuine threat to our national security."

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