Description: Britain’s leader of the far – right populist party Reform, Nigel Farage, has outlined radical propositions for tackling the country’s growing migrant crisis. Farage labeled the initiative Operation Restoring Justice, where the populist leader proposes mass deportation of asylum seekers, tightening the migration law through the abandonment of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and drastically changing the Human Rights Act to a British Bill of Rights. Farage continued by criticizing the incumbent Labor government for their shortcomings in tackling the proliferation of illegal migrants through UK’s fragile border security. Representatives from the conservative Tory party have criticized Farage, claiming that he copied their ideas but missed the entire point of the solution. Anti migration protests erupted last weekend when the government decided to ban hotels from housing migrants.
Impact: Farage’s ideas in their current form represent political posturing and attempts to garner support for his political camp, Reform, on the back of the poorly managed migration crisis in the country. Abandoning the ECHR or rewriting domestic laws which prescribes the protection of basic human rights goes against every political principle in the UK and would most definitely be categorically rejected. Starmer’s Labor government, however, remains under growing pressure from protests and UK’s Parliament in constructively resolving longstanding issues in the country with migration. Bilateral treaties which were established earlier this year with France and Germany are yet to be implemented which leaves Starmer’s government with marginal space for resolving the crisis. In the short – term low scale protests would continue, while modifications in UK’s migration laws and stricter measures for entering the country could be implemented in the mid to long term.