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New: Farage
Monday 12 October 2026 · 19:00 BST · 1h · 3 stories · 15 annotated moments · 27 of 60 min on news stories (46%)
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Reform UK announced a plan to shut down Britain's asylum system for up to five years if it wins power. The plan would stop processing new asylum claims, suspend asylum tribunals, close legal refugee routes and resettlement schemes, and begin removing people already in Britain whether or not they have been granted asylum. It would also use visa bans, tariffs, trade restrictions and airline restrictions against countries such as Pakistan and Afghanistan that refuse to take back their nationals. In the discussion that followed, Reform's Zia Yusuf argued the system should be ended for five years, and panelists debated estimates of more than a million illegal migrants, the use of lethal force by Royal Marines against known people smugglers or terrorists, and comparisons with Australia's border policies.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham urged MPs to be open to closer ties with the European Union ahead of a summit next month, where the two sides would seek a new food and drink agreement, a youth mobility scheme and a pact on emissions trading, which he hoped could provide a 10 billion pound boost to the economy. Burnham said the status quo was not good enough and promised the British public would be the boss at every stage of renegotiations. He also said it was inconceivable Russia had not sought to interfere in the 2016 Brexit referendum, prompting backlash; he insisted he was not questioning the referendum's legitimacy and clarified that any Russian interference was not successful. A security minister contradicted him by saying Russian attempts had not succeeded, and panelists discussed the November 20 summit and whether the UK was being drawn back toward the EU.
Investigative journalist Steven Edginton discussed his documentary Britain before mass migration, which features older people describing how Britain changed over their lifetimes. The film includes interviews with a Falklands veteran and a man who grew up in Tottenham and returned after more than 50 years, with the area now described as 22 percent white British; other local voices spoke about crime, drugs and a loss of community. In the final segment, GB News reporter Mark White, live from the Falkland Islands, reported that islanders had invited President Donald Trump to visit and had faced a sustained campaign of intimidation by Argentinians, including cyber attacks, abusive phone calls and flag-waving incidents on the seafront. The acting chair of the Falklands Legislative Assembly said Trump would be welcome, while Secretary Rubio confirmed the US position had not changed; islander Mike Summers suggested Trump's comments were an attempt to pressure the UK government.
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Claim Farage sets out plan to shut UK asylum system for five years
Reform UK said it would close the UK asylum system for five years if elected at the next general election.
GB News, New: Farage, 12 October 2026, 6:43-6:49
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Claim Farage sets out plan to shut UK asylum system for five years
Reform UK said it would close the UK asylum system for five years if elected at the next general election.
GB News, New: Farage, 12 October 2026, 6:49-6:59
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Charged quote Farage sets out plan to shut UK asylum system for five years
So the deportation of migrants whether they've been granted asylum or not It's a total and complete shut down of the asylum system itself for five years And also threats to countries who refuse to take back their garbage Is this the plan that Britain's broken immigration system so desperately needs?
GB News, New: Farage, 12 October 2026, 8:36-8:40
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Contested quote Farage sets out plan to shut UK asylum system for five years
They use it as opposed to my panel tonight The historian the broadcaster Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and GB News a senior political commentator Nigel Nelson they use it first to you. It's bold. It's brassy and it's out there Can you quantify for us how many people will be deported? Well, we've got to deport everyone who's in the country
GB News, New: Farage, 12 October 2026, 8:58-9:03
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Claim Farage sets out plan to shut UK asylum system for five years
Reform UK said it would close the UK asylum system for five years if elected at the next general election.
GB News, New: Farage, 12 October 2026, 9:03-9:14
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Charged quote Farage sets out plan to shut UK asylum system for five years
response with the fact that the Tories and Labour have let as Nigel said an Unheard of number of people about whom we know next to nothing and it's worth reiterating some of these points because they're so mind-blowing Sometimes we see this stuff and a lot of people who my friends are this is a conspiracy theory
GB News, New: Farage, 12 October 2026, 9:36-9:42
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Charged quote Farage sets out plan to shut UK asylum system for five years
… done more than their fair share taken more than their fair share almost a million people have claimed asylum in this country of The last two decades at a cost of 32 billion pounds in real terms and yet how does Andy Burnham respond he lays on police escorts for men invading the country and somehow has also Convinced himself that what Britain wants is more safe and legal routes for Afghans to come here
GB News, New: Farage, 12 October 2026, 10:36-10:43
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Contested quote Farage sets out plan to shut UK asylum system for five years
and yet how does Andy Burnham respond he lays on police escorts for men invading the country and somehow has also Convinced himself that what Britain wants is more safe and legal routes for Afghans to come here So what we've announced today is very simple. We've announced we're gonna have to shut down the asylum system I'm sorry Britain is
GB News, New: Farage, 12 October 2026, 10:49-10:54
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Charged quote Farage sets out plan to shut UK asylum system for five years
So what we've announced today is very simple. We've announced we're gonna have to shut down the asylum system I'm sorry Britain is Full until we've deported everyone who's already in the country illegally and we've gotten this country back on its feet where British people are not Being literally left for dead waiting for ambulances, for example go around the country
GB News, New: Farage, 12 October 2026, 10:56-11:03
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Charged quote Farage sets out plan to shut UK asylum system for five years
Throughout his life. We've got to put British people first. We're shutting down the asylum system. I mean as home secretary I will clear the asylum backlog you hear a lot about you're gonna clear the asylum backlog I'll clear it by deporting everybody who's in it Where to so number one back to their home country that will include countries like Afghanistan and before the Guardian and the BBC and Good
GB News, New: Farage, 12 October 2026, 11:55-11:57
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Contested quote PM announces National Centre for Information Defence
Help voters in Germany and France understand that some of this politics is instigated via our enemies namely Russia Yes, it's about the greatest remainer myth of all you didn't know you voting for because Vladimir Putin made you do it However, this just this morning. Mr. Burnham was contradicted by his own minister
GB News, New: Farage, 12 October 2026, 22:53-23:00
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Contested quote PM announces National Centre for Information Defence
Did they succeed when it come to the brexit referendum? Was that an effective attempt? The security minister spoken about this before and he's been very clear that they've attempted to they haven't succeeded So let's be crystal clear has Andy Burnham our Prime Minister fallen for the Romaniacs greatest ever conspiracy theory And that's saying something that
GB News, New: Farage, 12 October 2026, 23:17-23:25
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Charged quote PM announces National Centre for Information Defence
So let's be crystal clear has Andy Burnham our Prime Minister fallen for the Romaniacs greatest ever conspiracy theory And that's saying something that 17.4 million people were duped into voting for independence by Russia Well as Andy Burnham prepares to roll the pitch for digging up the old Brexit versus remain arguments
GB News, New: Farage, 12 October 2026, 23:25-23:32
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Claim PM announces National Centre for Information Defence
A summit with Ursula von der Leyen is planned, with four agenda areas including a 10 billion pound growth boost.
GB News, New: Farage, 12 October 2026, 24:33-24:42
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Contested quote PM announces National Centre for Information Defence
These sorts of changes on for for veterinary for animals and so forth won't make a jot of difference in the great scheme of thing The Prime Minister is trying to delegitimize the vote by saying it was down to Russian interference We've got people like Sadiq Khan saying you don't need to have a referendum
GB News, New: Farage, 12 October 2026, 28:51-28:56
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