Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has outlined a £10 billion programme of “mass deportations” for asylum seekers who reach Britain by small boats, saying the plan would be enacted if his party wins the next general election. In an interview with The Times and subsequent public comments, Farage pledged to operate five charter flights a day to remove what he estimates could be hundreds of thousands of people deemed to have entered the United Kingdom illegally. Under the proposal, new legislation titled the Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill would end the right to claim asylum for Channel arrivals, repeal the Human Rights Act and pull Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights. Migrants would be detained on disused Royal Air Force bases—facilities capable of housing up to 24,000 people—while the government seeks return agreements with countries such as Afghanistan and Eritrea and explores offshore processing on Ascension Island or through revived cooperation with Rwanda. Farage’s announcement comes amid protests against hotels housing asylum seekers in roughly 30 towns and cities and heightened public concern over migration. Government data show 37,000 people crossed the Channel in small boats last year, while University of Oxford analysis indicates only 3 percent were ultimately deported. A recent YouGov survey placed Reform UK on 28 percent support, ahead of Labour on 21 percent and the Conservatives on 17 percent. Separately, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee has invited Farage to testify on 3 September about what he calls erosions of free speech in the United Kingdom, adding an international dimension to the Reform leader’s growing political profile.