Britain must wake up Follow rigorous reporting on the threats to our democracy Enjoy four months’ free access to The Telegraph. Cancel at any time. | | The Taliban has said it is “ready and willing” to work with Nigel Farage and accept deported Afghans, after the Reform UK leader unveiled his blueprint for mass deportations.
A senior Taliban official spoke to The Telegraph following Mr Farage’s speech announcing plans to crack down on illegal immigration with measures including returns agreements with countries such as Afghanistan, Iran and Eritrea.
“We will have to see what Mr Farage does when or if he becomes Prime Minister of Britain, but since his views are different, it may be easier to deal with him than with the current one,” the official said.
As part of the plans to deport up to 600,000 illegal migrants in five years of a Reform government, the party is setting aside £2bn to be used as a financial incentive to foreign governments to accept returns.
Below, Charles Hymas, our Home Affairs Editor, takes a closer look at Mr Farage’s proposal and the obstacles he could face.
| Charles Hymas Home Affairs Editor | It had the feel of an election rally, even though the polls were four years off. In a hangar at Oxford airport, Nigel Farage brought together supporters and journalists to set out his blueprint for mass deportations. He claimed it was the “last shot” the public would get if they wanted a politician to solve the migration crisis.
Where other leaders had broken their pledges, he claimed that he would deliver and stop the boats. Where others have to keep their divided parties on board, the Reform leader has the freedom to be radical even if his opponents brand his plans as “fantasy” and his calculations as made on the back of “fag packets”.
Mr Farage has gambled on a pledge that no other political leader is likely to emulate. Just 9,100 people were forcibly deported in the year to June 2025. He is instead aiming for a more than 10-fold annual increase, with a target of 600,000 deportations in five years.
But there are some very challenging obstacles that Mr Farage will have to negotiate if he becomes PM. Not least, unpicking the European Convention on Human Rights could have unforeseen consequences for the Good Friday Agreement. Then there is navigating the House of Lords and the formidable task of building 24,000 detention places for deportees. All could delay or trip up the Reform leader. “Nigel Farage’s plans will play well with his voters and it is not impossible to do it. It’s just such a huge undertaking that no Government has had the bottle to do it,” says Tony Smith, the former Border Force chief.
How Farage could kick 600,000 migrants out of Britain ➤ | | Annabel Denham As the country deteriorates, useless technocratic elites are fighting battles on three fronts Continue reading ➤ David Blair My sanctioning by Russia shows the Kremlin hates free societies Continue reading ➤ Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Trump can bully the Fed but he can’t bully the bond markets Continue reading ➤ | Free thinking. Straight talking. Explore more opinion from the nation’s leading comment writers Enjoy four months’ free access to The Telegraph. Cancel at any time. | | Tracy Edwards’s influence as the skipper of Maiden, the boat that in 1990 carried the first all-female crew around the world, has lived on. But this month, she attracted publicity of a different kind when she was targeted by young actresses who used a musical about her life to protest against her gender-critical views. In a fascinating interview at her home in south-west London, Oliver Brown spoke to Edwards about her extraordinary reinvention from an onboard cook to an icon of female empowerment, and about why she would never stop fighting for women’s sex-based rights. Continue reading ➤ | | | The mills of Batley, once a prosperous wool town in Yorkshire, have gone. Christopher Howse found Big Joe’s cafe full of character, but the street outside devoid of it. Culturally split between pub-goers and Muslims who prefer dessert parlours, can Batley pull together to escape ruin? Continue reading ➤ | | | What do American voters hate? “Woke” language, according to one centre-Left think tank in Washington. Third Way has chided Democrats for using “an awful lot of words and phrases no ordinary person would ever dream of saying” and said they should stop using terms like “birthing person”, “chest feeding” and “intersectionality”. But can you guess what others it wants to knock on the head? Test yourself in our quiz. Continue reading ➤ | | | ★★☆☆☆
It’s the series you probably haven’t been waiting for: the not-so-long-anticipated second series of the Duchess of Sussex’s lifestyle show. The good news is that Anita Singh has watched it so you don’t have to: witness the dramatic tension of the flower arranging competition; marvel at the beauty of her ‘craft barn’; and wrestle with the most important question of them all – where the hell is Harry? Continue reading ➤ | | | When the White House revealed a 15pc tariff cap on EU pharma exports, Dublin’s political leaders struggled to conceal their delight. But Ireland’s troubles are far from over. A surge in immigration to fill jobs created by the country’s overheating economy is giving rise to growing tensions. And if the Government doesn’t act swiftly, they could soon boil over. Continue reading ➤ | | | The Princess of Wales has a covetable ring stack: there’s her famous 12-carat sapphire-and-diamond engagement ring, her Cartier eternity ring and her Welsh gold wedding band. While we may not all have access to royal jewels, we can still create a harmonious, lasting set of bling that marks life’s milestones. Jewellery expert Sarah Royce-Greensill tells us how here.
Continue reading ➤
Here are two more helpful articles for you this morning: | | Ray Burman, 73, and his wife take an income of £5,000 a month and have a surplus of £2,000 | With a comfortable pension, a farmhouse owned outright and a job he enjoys, Ray Burman’s life is lived largely without worry.
The 73-year-old former policeman is “hugely blessed” to live a quiet life with his wife, Victoria, in rural Norfolk free from money worries. He works on a Royal Air Force base – “I just love it” – and the ordained priest delivers the Sunday sermon, for which he refuses to be paid.
But there is one worry that lingers in his mind: with no children of their own, to whom should the Burmans leave their legacy?
Luckily, they have an obvious answer in their best friends’ grandchildren. “I call them our adopted grandchildren,” Burman says. “We’ve seen them grow up and they treat us like we’re aunt and uncle. We’re very much part of the family there.”
But this solution sparks its own major problem: the adult grandchildren live in Connecticut in the US. How can the couple ensure they leave the largest sum possible to these people who mean so much to them without their inheritance being raided by the complex tax burdens of two nations?
With pensions, savings and a home to consider, Telegraph Money enlisted the services of two financial experts to help the couple ensure their legacy. Read the advice in full here ➤ | Plane sailing Every weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal Reader Correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes...
Nice thing, travel: new sights, people, things to eat, languages to mangle. Pity about, er, the travelling bit. It seems unfair that the price to pay for a change of scene might be several hours at Stansted, three more trapped next to a sweaty stranger on a cramped plane, and a lost bag at the end of it. Or, if you’re staycationing, a quarter of a day standing between carriages on a train that grinds to a halt somewhere near Newton Abbot (it’s always Newton Abbot).
It was with mild incredulity, then, that I read this article about how travel was once fun – in the 1990s. My main sources on this question are my parents, who at that time had two small children to cart around – and I suspect my brother and I did sterling work topping up the stress levels.
For many Telegraph readers, though, it was indeed a golden age. Anthony Griffiths wrote: “I averaged 250 flights a year in the 1980s and 1990s. It was always dead simple: turn up at the airport with your passport and paper tickets, and breeze through check-in. A real pleasure compared with the mayhem that is travel today.”
Laurence Traynor also recalled a surreal lack of bureaucracy: “I travelled to places like Rhodes or Tenerife on a return ticket, then sold the return portion for a few quid in order to fund an extended stay. There were no problems with name changes: you just turned up at check-in with your ticket in the name of “Mrs Smith”, or whoever, and boarded without any trouble.”
Another reader felt nostalgic for “paper maps, inevitably getting lost and finding places I would never have seen otherwise”.
For Emma Dixon, pre-smartphone travel was similarly liberating: “I went to Australia for a few months in the early 1990s and my parents didn’t hear from me until an airmail letter turned up. I left in September and didn’t phone them until Christmas Day, as it was too expensive. Today’s helicopter parents would be horrified.” You can send me your stories here, or head to our Your Say page, exclusively on the Telegraph app. | Plan your day with the telegraph | Set your alarm to catch up with journalists on the Your Say page and listen to their analysis on our latest podcasts.
| Get full access Unlock Britain’s best news app and our award-winning website Enjoy four months’ free access to The Telegraph. Cancel at any time. | | Find as many words as you can in today’s Panagram, including the nine-letter solution. Visit Telegraph Puzzles to play a range of head-scratching games, including PlusWord, Sorted, and Quick, Mini or Cryptic Crosswords.
The solution to yesterday’s clue was FERTILITY. Come back tomorrow for the answer to today’s puzzle. | | Thank you for reading. Have a fulfilling day and I hope to see you tomorrow. Chris Evans, Editor
P.S. I’d love to hear what you think of this newsletter. You can email me your feedback here. | |
.png){kind=icon}
.png){kind=icon}
Aucun commentaire:
Enregistrer un commentaire