Elizabeth Hart

Farage has just attacked me for backing mass deportations - let me be clear about what happened. What he is referring to is my support for removing foreign/dual nationals who were aware that their husband/brother/uncle/son was raping vulnerable young white girls on an industrial scale. If they knew, and did nothing, then yes. They should be removed from our country. I make absolutely NO apologies for stating that. I do not want such evil walking our streets. Deport them all. If that results in entire communities being deported, then that is what must happen. Obviously. The number is irrelevant. Everyone who knew and did nothing must go. If a Pakistani woman knew that her husband was raping a young white girl, facilitating it? Then yes - she should go back to Pakistan with her husband. It’s shocking that Farage doesn’t agree. At a Reform event in Essex, Farage even removed the line ‘mass deportation’ from my speech. He later told the Telegraph he thought it was 'a very grave, dark and dangerous use of language.' What's changed? In that same speech he instructed me to remove a reference to deporting these complicit foreign nationals. I refused. I'm glad I did. He says millions can't go? I disagree. My position is clear, and it’s one the British people agree with. Mass deportation of every single illegal migrant. Abolish the entire asylum system. Review all refugee claims given to illegal arrivals, with deportation the default. And actually, the biggest problem of them all? Legal immigration. A large number of legal migrants, who have failed to uphold their end of the deal, need to go home too. Not working, not contributing, not integrating, not even speaking English? Go home. From what I can see - the Reform plan is nowhere near enough. Even on deporting illegals. It's just not enough. It's weak. They ALL must go. Not some, ALL. Farage was also questioned why my plan would cost far more than his? His response? Because "Zia is really good at maths". No. It's because it's because your plan is weak. All very disappointing. We need to be brave to take our country back, and this is not brave. We have already shifted the entire public debate in six months. Let’s keep pushing. Mass deportations, and I mean proper mass deportations, must happen.

Opinion polling for the next election: UK: Reform leading by 7pp France: RN leading by 10pp Germany: AfD leading by 2pp Italy: FdI leading by 7pp Netherlands: PVV leading by 1pp Switzerland: SVP leading by 12pp Austria: FPÖ leading by 13pp (Most data from Wikipedia.) The degree to which the non-traditional right is ascendant across the western world is very striking. Which are the best pieces that attempt to explain this in international rather than merely domestic terms?