Richard Tice has hailed Reform UK leader Nigel Farage's plan to crack down on illegal migration, branding the policy "common sense".
Speaking to GB News, the party's deputy leader declared a nation "should protect its borders" and should "only welcome those who have come legally".
Detailing his party's plan to tackle the migrant crisis, Mr Farage stated: "We will, for a five-year period, disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention and any other barriers that can be used by lawyers in this country to prevent deportations, to prevent the right thing from happening.
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Richard Tice has hailed Reform UK leader Nigel Farage's plan to tackle Britain's migration crisis
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"Women and children, everybody on arrival will be detained, and I've accepted already that how we deal with children is a much more complicated and difficult issue."
As GB News reporter Katherine Forster told Mr Tice that the plan is "hardcore and radical", he disagreed, stating: "You say it's hardcore, it's common sense.
"A nation should protect its borders, a nation should know who is coming here and it should only welcome those that have come here legally."
Taking aim at the "historic failures" of previous Governments to tackle the migrant crisis, Mr Tice added: "Those who've come here illegally should not expect to be given lots of hospitality and benefits, and they should not expect to stay here.
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"So it's basic, common sense that the British people have wanted from Governments historically, who've completely failed to deliver and who've lied and misled about legal immigration and illegal immigration."
Sharing details of the deportation plans, Mr Tice revealed that illegal migrants will be given a "six-month offer" to voluntarily be deported out of Britain.
He revealed: "We've said that we will leave the European Convention on Human Rights and we will scrap the ridiculous Human Rights Act that has just been a gravy train for the leftie human rights lawyers.
"We will derogate from the UN 51 convention and other treaties for five years in order to ensure that we can detain and deport anybody who comes here illegally.
"Those who've already got here illegally, they will be given a six-month offer. Either voluntarily go of your own volition with a free flight and a couple of thousand quid, otherwise, you know the date on which you will be detained and deported. That's the reality."
Mr Tice told GB News that Nigel Farage is 'absolutely determined' to push the plan through
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Claiming that the plan would result in a "massive deterrent effect" for Britain, Mr Tice said: "We will be getting legislation ready in draft form using our own lawyers and barristers, not the civil servants, way before the election, so that we are ready. And if we get a decent majority, give us the mandate so we can get this through the Houses of Parliament rapidly and we'll work harder and faster than anybody else.
"And we do have a track record of being able to get stuff done, because we come from the world of business and we are doers, we are not wafflers.
"So yes, it'll take a bit of time. Everybody will know that we mean business and we will get on with it.
"And we think that will have a massive deterrent effect and people should be under no illusion whatsoever."
Stressing the determination of the Reform party to get the legislation through, Mr Tice concluded: "When Nigel says, as leader of Reform and as our future Prime Minister, that he is absolutely determined to drive this through, no ifs, no buts, that will happen and we will all work our socks off 24/7 to ensure it does."