Author: James Harden

The “memorandum of understanding” unveiled at the conference is a political document, but could be developed into a legal agreement between two future governments, if both parties win power.It states: “The United Kingdom will intercept boats which have launched from French shores and entered British territorial waters and will return the persons on board to France. “France will ordinarily accept these persons, who will be repatriated to their home country in accordance with the law in force in France concerning expulsion.”Illegal migrants who successfully arrive in the UK from France would be immediately detained and deported to their home country,…

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has described secretly-recorded comments by his senior aides about donations as “injudicious” and “loose pub talk”.James Orr, the party’s head of policy, and Dan Jukes, a close aide to Farage, have both stepped down and Reform has launched an internal investigation into the allegations.It comes after Channel 4 News broadcast undercover filming by Verbatim Investigations, in which the two men suggested a way around electoral law to secure foreign party donations for the party, one of which would have totalled £500,000.Farage said his party had “done nothing wrong” and had taken “no illegal money. In…