With Reform UK committed to an immediate review of all asylum claims granted over the last five years if the party wins the next general election, we’re asking readers: Is Nigel Farage right? Reform UK has pledged an immediate review of all asylum claims granted over the last five years if the party wins the next general election.

The current Labour Government has already announced major crackdowns on immigration, including disrupting human trafficking gangs, emptying asylum hotels and increasing the time before indefinite leave to remain is granted. Conservatives claimed Reform was copying their policies “but without the detail”, and Liberal Democrats called it an “impractical farce” of a policy.

Reform, led by Nigel Farage, has previously announced it would bar anyone arriving on a small boat.

The party also wants the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to make removals easier and abolish the right to permanent settlement in the UK after five years.

Reform’s home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf said his party would “do what it takes to restore justice” in the UK.

Mr Yusuf told BBC Breakfast on Monday: “I want to emphasise this. We have described what is happening in this country as an invasion.

“We are not going to allow the British people’s goodwill to be taken advantage of.

“At no point are we saying any of this is going to be easy. If it were easy, then it would already have been done. What has been lacking is the political willpower.”

A Labour Party spokesperson blamed the previous Conservative governments, adding Labour was “finally bringing down” immigration numbers.

“We have already stopped over 42,000 illegal migrants attempting to cross the Channel since the general election,” they added.

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp accused Reform of copying Tory proposals too closely.

Liberal Democrat spokesman Will Forster called the plans a “hostile, headline-grabbing, impractical farce”.

The Green Party urged more focus on “our basic humanity”.