Reform UK’s deputy leader has accused the government of copying his party’s “rhetoric” with its proposed asylum reforms.

Speaking on GB News Richard Tice said:

“They’ve essentially been copying the sort of rhetoric that we were talking about a couple of months ago when we announced our operation restoring justice, detain and deport.

“But everybody knows that it won’t have the backing of a significant chunk of the Labour parliamentary party, and it won’t get past the human rights lawyers, our own Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights.

“And that’s why, for all the noise, all the bluster, this will make no difference whatsoever. You have to leave the European Convention on Human Rights; you have to repeal our own Human Rights Act that essentially copies the ECHR.

“When you do those two things, then all of these measures announced could be enacted. But until then, frankly, it doesn’t amount to a row of beans, despite all of the rhetoric and the hopes of people like Jo White.

“Already there’s a mini rebellion brewing in the parliamentary Labour Party.

“[Shabana Mahmood] has just admitted, therefore, that actually [The ECHR] is a problem for her and that she can’t do it until she’s resolved that negotiation. She’s not going to resolve it.

“It’ll make no difference whatsoever. There are thousands massing in northern France and further in France, there are thousands more. They view the UK as a completely soft touch. We’re the most generous and, it’s totally unsustainable, and the anger and fury of the British people of all political stripes is growing by the week.”