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A Reform government could remove one million people during its first term in office, Nigel Farage has declared. He insisted tough plans to kick out people who entered the UK illegally would save billions of pounds, and end a growing threat to the nation’s national security.

Those set to be removed would be offered a free plane ticket and £1,000. Those who refuse the offer would be forcibly deported. Mr Farage said: “There is no way that British taxpayers and British people should have to live with a whole load of people who illegally broke into our country, who disguised their identities and are now living off the British taxpayer – potentially for the rest of their lives, disjointing communities and, perhaps most frustratingly of all, going straight to the top of the social housing list.”

Speaking alongside Reform home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf, Mr Farage announced plans to remove up to 400,000 people who have been granted asylum in the UK over the past five years. Those people either arrived illegally, came on a visa but applied for asylum after the visa expired, or arrived from nations now considered safe.

Those affected currently have a legal right to remain after being given asylum, but that status would be revoked.

It follows an earlier pledge to deport everyone currently here illegally or who arrives on a small boat while Reform is in power, which the party estimates would affect 600,000 people.

Mr Farage said the nation was braced for a new wave of arrivals over the summer.

He said: “I have little doubt there will be tens of thousands more people who will come into Britain, posing a threat not just to our finances, posing a threat to many of our women and girls, but equally, given the situation the world is in, posing a genuine threat to our national security.”

He pointed out that he had previously warned of an “invasion”, adding: “My prediction that there would be an invasion has proved to be true, even if some people at the time did not like the use of that word.”

And the Reform UK leader said voters had been calling for effective immigration controls, only for their concerns to be ignored.

“It is unfair, it is immoral, it is wrong at every level. And it is one of those issues where the public’s faith in the democratic system has broken down,” he said.

The party plans to charter five flights a day to deport migrants, and will sweep away legal objections by leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

It also plans to build detention centres in “remote parts of the country” to hold up to 24,000 people at a time awaiting removal.

Conservatives accused Reform of copying their policy, which they call the Borders Plan.

Chris Philp, Shadow Home Secretary, said: “The Conservatives have already proposed a detailed Borders Plan to pull out of the ECHR and completely ban asylum claims by illegal immigrants. Instead, we would deport them within a week of arrival.

“The Conservatives’ Removals Force will deport 150,000 immigrants each year with no right to be here. Reform is slow in catching up with our ideas – but without the detail that will ensure it works in practice.”