Nigel Farage has rowed back on Reform UK’s plans to deport women and unaccompanied children who enter the UK illegally.

The party leader insisted the controversial move “is not part of our plan for the next five years”.

But just 24 hours previously, former Reform chairman Zia Yusuf had stood alongside Farage to insist it would happen.

A Lib Dem spokesperson said: “Reform’s plans do not even stand up to the scrutiny of their own leader.”

Farage on Tuesday unveiled plans to deport up to 600,000 illegal immigrants within five years of winning the next election.

Under “operation restoring justice”, he said he would withdraw the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights and other treaties to stop “activist judges” blocking his plans.

Reform would also revive the Tories’ faile

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