Ailbhe Rea: Nigel Farage Sets the Agenda ... Again
Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, during a news conference in London on Tuesday.
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The Readout is back from its break, but the pattern of summer politics very much continued today: Nigel Farage gave another press conference, setting the news agenda and forcing the government onto Reform talking points.
This time, it was a press conference on Reform’s plan for illegal immigration: a Trump-style plan to deport tens of thousands of asylum seekers who enter the UK illegally, combined with leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), scrapping the country’s Human Rights Act, and disapplying the 1951 Refugee Convention for five years — all to ensure there would be no legal routes for appeal.