Reform press conference: Farage wants to follow Putin and tear up our hard-won rights

EMBARGO: Immediate Release 

Responding to Reform's press conference this morning, Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper said

“Farage’s plan crumbles under the most basic scrutiny. The idea that Reform UK is going to magic up some new places to detain people and deport them to, but don’t have a clue where those places would be, is taking the public for fools.

“Of course Nigel Farage wants to follow his idol Vladimir Putin in ripping up the human rights convention. Winston Churchill would be turning in his grave. Doing so would only make it harder for each of us as individuals to hold the government to account and stop it trampling on our freedoms.”

On Zia Yusuf's comments regarding paying the Taliban to take back Afghan migrants, Daisy Cooper added

“Reform's Taliban tribute plan would send British taxpayers' cash to fund their oppressive regime, fuelling the persecution of Afghan women and children and betraying our brave Armed Forces who sacrificed so much fighting the Taliban. Clearly British values mean nothing to Farage and his band of plastic patriots.”

ENDS