The figurehead of the populist right in the United Kingdom has pledged to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and withdraw the country from international human rights treaties.

But experts say Nigel Farage’s plans – billed as the most radical immigration overhaul in modern British politics – are unlikely to ever be delivered.

Farage, whose Reform UK party currently leads national opinion polls despite holding just four parliamentary seats won in last year’s election, said a government led by him would withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights and repeal the Human Rights Act in order to reverse a movement of people into the country that he claims threatens national security.

“The mood in the country around this issue is a mix between total despair and rising anger,

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