Non-White British Citizens Born Abroad Could Be Deported

A new grand scheme seeks to forcibly deport non-white British citizens born abroad.

Reform UK members led by Nigel Farage conducted a survey and more than half of the Party members believe that non-whites born outside the UK should be removed.

According to the research published by the anti-racism group, Hope Not Hate (HnH), 54% of Reform members thought non-white British citizens born abroad should be forcibly removed or encouraged to leave, while one in five (22%) also supported it for non-white citizens whose parents were born in the UK.

Survation, a respected polling company, surveyed 629 Reform members between 29 January and 16 February.

Reform said in December that it had about 270,000 paid-up members.

These findings were described by HnH, which publishes its annual “State of Hate” report on Wednesday, as evidence of tensions in Farage’s party.

Its chief executive, Nick Lowles, said: “With a dilution of Reform’s policies to win more moderate voters, or if they were to form a government, you could see a number of their members becoming quite disillusioned.

”There was considerable support among Farage’s own members for two of his rivals on the right: Lowe and the activist Tommy Robinson. Two-thirds had a positive view of Lowe, who recently launched Restore Britain and advocates mass deportations.

HnH, which has been monitoring the far right for decades, said it was sounding an alarm on the rise of a more explicitly racial nationalism, which defines English identity by “blood and ancestry”.

“Its spread is dangerous because of the proposed solutions that follow, most notably ‘remigration’. This concept repackages older ideas of ethnic cleansing and forced repatriation in softer, more bureaucratic language,” the report states.

It warned that extreme racial nationalist views of who is British or English were breaking into the mainstream with the backing of Reform UK and media cheerleaders.

HnH drew a link between racially charged views on identity pushed by far-right activists during a backlash to Black Lives Matter and recent interventions by Reform UK figures such as Matthew Goodwin and Suella Braverman.

Goodwin, who lost the Gorton and Denton byelection last week, refused to disown his claim that UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not necessarily British.