By Andrew MacAskill and Michael Holden

LONDON (Reuters) -Nigel Farage’s Reform UK set out plans this week for the mass deportation of asylum seekers from Britain, which would involve withdrawing from human rights treaties and working with authoritarian governments to take back their citizens.

Reform UK, which currently has only four seats in parliament but which is leading in most opinion polls, said its changes to asylum law would mean it could deport 600,000 asylum seekers in its first five-year term if it wins the next general election, which is expected in 2029.

This would be one of the most radical attempts by a European country to deal with illegal immigration.

WHERE DOES THE FIGURE OF 600,000 COME FROM?

Successive British governments – under the Conservatives for more than a de

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