The asylum debate is now on Farage’s terms ...Middle East

Reform UK will face practical, political and legal challenges, but that is the point. Farage aims to foster the belief that Britain is broken, that incremental fixes fail, and that only radical reform will work. He will go where no other politician is prepared to tread.

“Are you on the side of women and children being safe on our streets or are you on the side of outdated international treaties backed up by a series of dubious courts?” he added.

Reform’s policy is just as aggressive as its rhetoric. Britain would leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and other international treaties. Authorities would arrest, detain, and then deport illegal immigrants to countries of origin, including Afghanistan and Eritrea, when they arrive. Reform would build accommodation for 24,000 people on “surplus” military bases.

Unilaterally withdrawing from international agreements, including the ECHR, risks the hard-won peace under the Good Friday Agreement and would also detonate the post-Brexit trade agreement with the EU, hitting trade and economic growth.

Equally, responding to queries about what would happen to children, he added: “I’m not standing here telling you all of this is easy, all of this is straightforward.”

With it taking up to 18 months to build the detention centres, the public bill for those in hotels and housing remains. And as detention centres are built, the risk of migrants absconding from hotels will rocket. Currently, hotels hold 30,000 people.

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But by far the biggest obstacle to Farage’s plan is the moral grimness of paying the Taliban, Iranians and other countries tens of millions of pounds to take back their probable dissidents only for those individuals to face torture, imprisonment and execution.

Over 5,100 asylum-seeking women and girls were identified as modern slavery victims last year, some experiencing daily rape. Will they also face deportation?

A Britain transformed into a pariah state by withdrawing from the UN Convention on Torture – even if only to give its judiciary no grounds to block deportations – is unlikely to be welcome at international summits.

An intensifying debate about asylum hotels, and specifically the decision by a High Court judge to grant an injunction that means up to 138 male asylum seekers must leave the Bell Hotel in Epping, no doubt helped.

At this point of the electoral cycle, campaigning is still at the vibes stage. Just as the Leave campaign revelled in its claim that Brexit would mean an extra £350m a year for the NHS, so Reform benefits from the furore surrounding its migration plans.

The more debate, the bigger their reach, and the more the public pay attention to Reform overall.

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