Bardella to meet with Farage at Reform UK Birmingham party conference
The leaders will discuss illegal migration and small boat crossings as Reform UK opens its annual conference amid a reported donations probe.
- On Friday, Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage and National Rally President Jordan Bardella signed a pact in Birmingham to curb small boat crossings, promising to return asylum seekers to France if their parties win power.
- Both countries have struggled for a decade to stem small boat crossings, with more than 16,000 arrivals in Britain this year. Earlier this week, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and French President Emmanuel Macron announced increased police deployments on beaches.
- Under the agreement, France would 'ordinarily accept' those detained after crossing the English Channel, subsequently repatriating them to their home countries. Bardella, a potential prime minister under National Rally leader Marine Le Pen, pledged to stop the boats.
- Amid the conference, Farage addressed a controversial £5 million 'gift' donation from British crypto-currency billionaire Christopher Harborne. Farage stated the funds, under review by parliamentary watchdogs, were intended for security costs.
- National Rally and Reform are positioning themselves ahead of upcoming elections, with French presidential voting scheduled for April next year and the next British national election due by 2029. Both parties currently poll strongly.
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French and UK anti-immigration parties pledge to work together on Channel crossings
Jordan Bardella of France's far-right Rassemblement National party and Nigel Farage of hard-right Reform UK signed a document Friday promising to end migrant crossings across the English Channel if their respective parties were to form governments.
Reform UK, France's National Rally agree plan to stop small boat crossings
Farage and French Populist Leader Bardella Seal Pact to Turn Back ALL Boat Migrants.
Jordan Bardella, leader of France's National Rally (RN) party, and Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform UK party, have signed a pact to return illegal migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats to France.
Nigel Farage hailed for returning ‘common sense’ to British politics by France's Jordan Bardella at Reform conference
Jordan Bardella, President of France’s National Rally party, has hailed Nigel Farage for returning “common sense” to British politics.Addressing Reform’s party conference in Birmingham, the man widely tipped to be France’s next leader agreed to a pact to end the small boat crisis forever. The Frenchman, who leads National Rally alongside Marine Le Pen, was joined on stage by Mr Farage to sign a document committing to their cooperation should the…
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