The leader of Britain’s hard-right Reform party has pledged to leave the European Convention on Human Rights and detain and deport anyone who arrives in the country illegally.

Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage promised to end the “invasion” of asylum-seekers with mass deportations and remigration policies if elected. Farage, who previously opposed mass remigration in the United Kingdom as a “political impossibility,

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