NIGEL Farage has said he will deport migrant women who illegally enter the UK if he’s elected prime minister.
The Reform UK leader had not been clear on his decision previously, after saying last week that women and children asylum seekers would not be deported.
Now, however, Mr Farage has rolled back on his statements and made it clear that detained women, who arrive in the UK illegally, would be sent back.
Speaking to Sky News at the Reform party conference in Birmingham, he confirmed he would “detain” women and “send them back”.
However, he stopped short of confirming if illegal child migrants would be deported, saying the UK would have a “duty of care” if a young child arrives in a dinghy.
Mr Farage said: “For clarity, those that cross the English Channel will be detained and deported, men and women.
“Children, we’ll have to think about.”
The Reform leader was also pressed about whether this would include deportations to Afghanistan, where women’s rights have been significantly curbed by the Taliban.
He, however, confirmed that this would be the case “if necessary”.
The Taliban confirmed last week it was “ready and willing” to strike an illegal migrant returns deal with Mr Farage.
Since the hardline Islamist militants seized back control of Afghanistan in 2021, after two decades of war, they have enforced a brutal crackdown on women’s rights, curbed media freedom, and ruled with violence and fear.
Branded terrorists by the West, they’re accused of harbouring extremists and crushing human rights while clinging to power.
Mr Farage said today that his priority for deportations would be men.
He said: “I’ve made it very very clear that our first priority, with those that are living in Britain illegally, is to deport men.
“It is men that are clearly the more perceived danger.”
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