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The plans announced by the leader of Reform U.K., which is leading opinion polls in Britain, illustrated how he is driving a hardening of the debate around immigration.

By Mark Landler

Reporting from London

A year ago, Nigel Farage, the right-wing populist who has rattled British politics, declared that deporting hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from the country was a “political impossibility,” not worthy of discussion.