As part of a headline-grabbing interview with The Times, Farage touted plans to potentially re-open the Rwanda deal, explore a similar arrangement to Albania, open offshore processing centres in British overseas territories and create tens of thousands of new places in detention centres.
The plans amount to some of the most concrete policies Reform has offered so far on immigration issues, but many have been dropped or disregarded by previous governments.
Farage cited Ascension Island, a 34-square-mile island located 960 miles off the west coast of Africa.
Less than 1,000 people live on the volcanic island, which hosts both a UK and US airbase.
In The Times interview, Farage described the plan as a “backstop”. He said: “It’s a long, long way and it would be expensive…it’s symbolism.”
An interim injunction by the European Court of Human Rights stopped ministers’ first attempt to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda in 2022 (Photo: Henry Nicholls/Reuters)Mass detention centres
This would mark a considerable increase in capacity, with only 2,192 beds currently available in detention centres across the UK.
Reform is also expected to announce plans to use prefabricated buildings, built on sites such as disused military bases, with canteens and medical facilities on site, to save as much taxpayer money as possible for detention centres and asylum accommodation.
One of the most striking elements of the plans is a pledge to launch five deportation flights every day under new emergency legislation known as the Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill.
Yet despite ministers spending more than £50m on preparations, not a single plane left the runway before Labour scrapped the scheme last year.
The system has also been prone to disruption: between 2015 and 2022, cancelled flights cost the government £12.4m.
Migrant families clamber onto a small boat on August 12, 2025 in Gravelines, France. More than 50000 small boat migrants have now crossed the English Channel since Labour came to power last July (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Restarting the Rwanda plan
Reform is also considering whether to revive the Rwandan deportation scheme, which was branded a “gimmick” by Labour and scrapped when the party came into power.
However, Albania has already previously distanced itself from entering any similar arrangement with the UK.
When initially entered into by former Home Secretary Priti Patel, special approval was required to overrule civil servants’ concerns over cost.
Scrapping the Human Rights Act
Farage told The Times the bill would enshrine “the freedom to do everything, unless there’s a law that says you can’t”, contrasting it with what he called the “concept of human rights, which are state-given”.
The Coalition government launched inquiries into replacing the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights in 2010 and 2012, but the review panels warned the change risked weakening protections.
In 2022, Dominic Raab introduced a Bill of Rights Bill intended to curb the influence of the European Court of Human Rights, but it was criticised by lawyers, campaign groups and senior Conservatives for creating fresh legal uncertainty.
The measure was officially abandoned in June 2023, when Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said the government would not proceed.
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