Bold, brazen, and now with billboards.
The usual Reform UK spectacle yesterday
as they announced their plans for small
boat crossings. But this time they also
promise the detail.
>> The only way we will stop the boats is
by detaining and deporting absolutely
anyone that comes via that route.
>> You've said that you're going to detain
anyone who arrives via small boats. Will
that apply to women and girls? And what
about unaccompanied children?
>> Yes, women and children. Everybody on
arrival will be detained. And I've
accepted already that how we deal with
children is a much more complicated and
difficult issue.
>> But one day later, everyone might not
truly mean everyone. Nigel Farage today
now rowing back on whether women and
girls will be included in their
proposals. I was very very clear
yesterday in what I said that that the
deportation of illegal immigrants, we
were not even discussing women and
children at this stage. There were so
many illegal males in Britain and the
news reports that said that after my
conference yesterday were wrong, wrong,
wrong, wrong.
>> I endorse this message.
>> Operation Restoring Justice 6 months in
the making, timed during recess to seize
a moment before other political parties
could.
And after a bruising summer for the
government staving off scenes like this,
>> polling today shows the majority of
Britain's back the asylum hotel
protests.
>> Today, the two main parties relishing
the apparent shift in reformer's
position.
>> He's having this problem because he
hasn't done the homework. He's only
copied ours. This is why we need to take
the time to make sure we get the
policies right. In the last 24 hours,
they're already rowing back on things.
And there are legitimate questions like,
"What would happen if women and girls
who've escaped the Taliban come come to
this country for for sanctuary? Would
you deport them?"
>> 31,000 women and girls claimed asylum
last year in the UK. Many from
Afghanistan, where reform has suggested
it would be prepared to deport people
back to if they arrived by small boat.
One of reform's policies is to make
deals with Afghanistan. So if women were
adopted under this policy, they would be
sent back to Afghanistan. Do you think
that's safe for them?
>> No. The woman has nothing there. There
is no right for women. The female cat in
Afghanistan has more right than a woman
because they don't have a voice at all.
They don't allow to talk. They don't
allow to go out. They don't allow to
study children. Nothing. We are making
progress to stop the boats,
>> to smash the gangs.
>> Slogans voters have grown weary of but
an issue felt deeply.
Reform's plan, if they did walk into
power, is a deterrent based on a promise
for flights. Only one way to solve what
they say is a crisis, but not completely
worked out yet how to solve. Serena
Barka Singh, Sky News.