Sarah Pochin doubles down on Reform's two-week plan to 'stop the small boats': 'It is crippling this country!'

WATCH NOW: Sarah Pochin MP doubles down on Reform's focus to address illegal migration

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Georgia Pearce

By Georgia Pearce


Published: 06/09/2025

- 14:49

Nigel Farage declared he would 'stop the small boats within two weeks of winning Government'

Sarah Pochin has leapt to Nigel Farage's defence as she doubled down on his "two-week plan" to "stop the small boats".

Speaking to GB News at the party's conference, the Reform UK MP declared that although the plan is "radical", they "cannot solve the problem" of the migration crisis without it.


Detailing his plans further, Mr Farage told GB News that "given the mood of the nation, the legislation needs to go through as quickly as it’s possible".

He added: "It will take two weeks, once we get the legislation in place, it will take two weeks to stop the boats."

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Sarah Pochin has defended Nigel Farage amid Reform's focus to address illegal migration with 'two-week plan'

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Quizzed by Political Correspondent Katherine Forster on the plans, Ms Pochin told GB News: "I think what Nigel is meaning is that Reform is the only party that is saying it will leave the ECHR and it will repeal the human rights bill.

"And with those two factors alone, we are then in a position to start to send all illegal asylum seekers, illegal migrants, back to where they came from."

Criticising the "left-wing lawyers" dealing with the appeals system for asylum seekers in Britain, the Reform MP added: "What we have at the moment is a whole industry of left-wing lawyers making a fortune out of the endless appeal and appeal and appeal that a legal migrant can do, and what we need to do is take the legislation away.

"And it is a dramatic policy, it is a radical, extreme policy, but we have to do it."

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Nigel Farage sits down with Katherine Forster to discuss the migrant crisis

Nigel Farage sat down with GB News Political Correspondent Katherine Forster to discuss the migrant crisis

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Stressing that the migrant crisis "cannot be solved" without such "radical" action by Reform, Ms Pochin explained: "We will create a British Bill of Rights to replace the human rights bill, but unless we take this radical action, then we cannot solve this problem.

"And the fact is, the Labour Government have said very clearly they will never leave the ECHR. Kemi Badenoch said they will leave the ECHR, but I can tell you, Nadine Dorries said from within the Conservative Party there is no will to leave the ECHR, otherwise they would have done it. They had 14 years to do it."

Deeming the legislation "unfit for purpose", she stated: "It's not fit for purpose anymore, and we need to redo that sort of legislation because that's what's crippling and effectively bankrupting this country."

Quizzed by Katherine on Mr Farage's changing stance on whether women and children will also be deported from Britain if they enter illegally, Ms Pochin said that the "majority of illegal migrants are fighting age men".

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Ms Pochin told GB News that the majority of illegal migrants on small boats are 'fighting age young men'

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Ms Pochin told GB News: "When it comes to women and girls being deported, we know that the fact is out of the 70 to 80 people on these, not small boats, we must stop calling the small boats, the majority, 99 per cent are young men.

"And you may get the odd woman and the odd child on that boat, and half the time, I think it's just for the BBC to take a picture, but the fact is, the overwhelming majority are young, fighting men. That's what we need to deal with."

Hailing the hard work of Reform UK and their policy making, Ms Pochin concluded: "As a small party we are building, we have a team that is creating the infrastructure to meet the demand for Reform.

"But we're growing so fast, and what we need to do now is get all of these policies in place. But it's happening and people are excited about it."

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