Campaigners have warned against trusting Nigel Farage to rewrite fundamental UK rights after Reform UK announced their plan to strip rights from all UK citizens.
Citing concerns of immigration, Reform UK has pledged to repeal the UK's Human Rights Act (1998) and "disapply" international treaties like the Refugee Convention.
They have also promised to withdraw the UK from the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), meaning the UK the only European nation besides Russia and Belarus to not be signatories to it.
The ECHR is also fundamental to the Good Friday Agreement which secured peace in Northern Ireland after decades of conflict and thousands of deaths.
Campaigners are highlighting the threat that repealing these safeguards has, not just for people arriving in the UK but for all UK citizens.
Naomi Smith, chief executive of Best for Britain said:
“Stoking fears over immigration as a way to remove our most basic rights is right out of the authoritarian playbook and has been used by Donald Trump to deploy masked men on the streets of the US who are abducting and imprisoning American citizens without trial.
“We cannot allow the same to happen here. Rights to fair trial, free elections and freedom of expression are all protected by the Human Rights Act and ECHR, and are not something we can trust Nigel Farage to rewrite.