Farage vows to shut down Britain's asylum system for five years if elected as prime minister Nigel Farage pledges to suspend asylum system, close resettlement schemes and deport thousands of migrants if elected as prime minister Nigel Farage vowed to shut down Britain's asylum system for five years if he is elected as prime minister as he posed in front of a 43ft replica migrant dinghy. The system has been overwhelmed by migrants, with a record 230 migrants arriving in a single Channel crossing in August. Mr Farage was dwarfed by the replica inflatable, which Reform said was a full-scale model of the boat used. He pledged to suspend the asylum system entirely for the first term of a Reform UK government, with 90,000 outstanding claimants being automatically refused and deported - including women and children.Reform UK Pledges To Suspend Asylum SystemHis government would also close official resettlement schemes, such as those for Afghan refugees, which brought in nearly half a million people between 2015 and 2022. Reform said it would conduct a full assessment of those previously granted refugee status, revoking it from those who were granted it after arriving via small boat, or whose country of origin is now deemed safe.The party's policies to tackle asylum, illegal migrants and foreign-born criminals would engage every facet of the British state to either manually deport those who should not be in the country, or force them to go home voluntarily. Mr Farage insisted that Reform's latest migrant crackdown pledge is not 'radical or crazy', but a return to what any 'normal country that puts security at the top of the agenda' should be expected to do.Following the RAF Fairford incident last month, Mr Farage said he had been proved right after warning that foreign enemies such as Iran would use the Channel migrants crisis to undermine Britain's security. He said, 'I warned Parliament more than once that I had intelligence that the Iranian regime was using the small boats crisis to smuggle their operatives in the room. Do you know the response I got from the Labour benches? They shouted, 'Shame on you!Farage Claims National Security Warning Proven RightShame on you!' Well, shame on them. 'This Government is not doing its job; it is not protecting the national security of this country, and of course, once again, sadly, I've been proved to be right. '