Nigel Farage is producing policies on the “back of a fag packet”, a Home Office minister has claimed. Appearing on NewsNight on Tuesday (26 August), Lord Hanson said that the Reform UK leader’s plans to mass deport 600,000 asylum seekers if his party wins have no “substance to them”. “He’s producing policies which I’m afraid are on the back of a fag packet… They are also not really deliverable in terms of what is a very complex and challenging issue,” he said. Unveiling the radical plans at a press conference on London earlier that day, Mr Farage also pledged to scale up detention capacity for asylum seekers to 24,000 and secure deals with countries such as Afghanistan, Eritrea and Iran to return migrants to their countries.

Nigel Farage will today challenge Keir Starmer to ditch his support for foreign courts as he sets out plans for the mass deportation of illegal migrants.

Reform UK leader told scheme is ‘simply not rooted in reality’ after he dodges questions on how it would work