Reform UK has set out plans to suspend the asylum system for five years if elected.
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The party's leader Nigel Farage says the party would void all existing asylum applications, deport 90,000 people currently with appeal cases, and scrap the asylum tribunal system.
Labour called the plans a sign of "desperation and weakness", whilst the Tories accused Reform of "largely copying" existing Conservative policy.
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