House Secretary Priti Patel introduced plans earlier this 12 months to ship these believed to have crossed the Channel illegally to Rwanda for processing.
Nevertheless, the primary flight set to depart for the East African nation was grounded on the final minute following an intervention from the European Court docket of Human Rights (ECHR).
Talking on Dan Wootton’s GB Information present on Monday evening, the former UKIP chief stated the time had come to cease putting the blame elsewhere.
He stated: “We have to cease pointing the finger elsewhere, cease blaming the French, cease blaming unnamed judges within the European court docket in Strasbourg.
“Cease blaming everybody else, cease even blaming the felony gangs, let’s begin blaming ourselves.
“Boris Johnson introduced this coverage for those who keep in mind again in April this 12 months, since then 15,000 have come.”
When requested whether or not he believed Tory management hopefuls Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak had a plan, Mr Farage replied: “They don’t even need to discuss it.
“Too awkward, too embarrassing, too troublesome
“The options are clear, the person who had a plan that labored was a fellow known as Tony Abbott, the previous Australian Prime Minister.”
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“However be in little doubt, we’re at 20,000, by the top of the 12 months it may very well be 50,000, it may very well be 60,000.
“While it’s true that Keir Starmer has no reply to this in any respect, the political level right here is that Brexit and the 2019 Tory majority had been on the again of 1 very large key coverage.
“[That is] taking again management of our borders, and we’re being made to look [like] a global laughing inventory.”
