Overview

• In a Sky News interview at Reform UK's Birmingham conference, Nigel Farage answered "yes" when asked if he would detain women and send them back, confirming deportations could include Afghan women to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
• He said men and women who cross the Channel would be detained and deported, while adding that decisions on children remain under consideration and citing a duty of care to young children.
• Pressed on past remarks that excluded women and children, he argued he had been prioritising men for detention on arrival and sought to clarify the sequencing of who would be removed first.
• He revised his pledge to stop the boats within two weeks, now saying that could happen only after new legislation, despite a recorded speech stating it would occur within two weeks of winning government.
• Farage set out plans for an 'Illegal Migration Act', an exit from the ECHR, closing asylum hotels, using RAF bases, and starting deportation flights within two weeks of the law taking effect, and he has pledged 600,000 deportations over five years if elected.