By Andrew MacAskill and Michael Holden

LONDON (Reuters) -The leader of Britain's anti-migration Reform UK party, Nigel Farage, announced a plan on Tuesday to repeal human rights laws to allow for mass deportations of asylum seekers, action he said was needed to prevent "major civil disorder".

Farage said his party, which is leading in national opinion polls, would remove Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), repeal the Human Rights Act and disapply other international treaties that have been used to block the forced deportation of asylum seekers.

"We are not far away from major civil disorder," Farage said at a press conference. "It is an invasion, as these young men illegally break into our country."

The announcement comes against the backdrop of sustained, smal

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