Paying Taliban to take migrants ‘vile perversion of Britishness’

A FORMER army officer has branded any attempt to pay the Taliban to take people deported from the UK “a vile perversion of what it is to be British’

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His comments came after Reform UK's leader, Nigel Farage, raised the possibility of his party negotiating a returns agreement with the Afghan government if his party came to power - amid plans proposed last week for “mass deportations” to address migration.

Reform deputy leader Richard Tice has since appeared to double down on the idea, arguing in recent days there was a “justification” for the move as it was “in the interests of the British people”

Mr Tice added: “Sometimes you do deals with people you may not want to go down the pub with”

But ex-British Army officer Robert Gallimore, a major in the Welsh Guards who served in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2011, said such a move would see people sent “back to their torturers” and likened it to being the opposite of saving children from the Nazis in the Second World War.