Archbishop slams Farage’s ‘knee-jerk’ asylum plans

LONDON: The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, has criticised the leader of Britain’s populist Reform UK party, Nigel Farage, describing his plans for mass deportations of asylum seekers as an “isolationist, short-term, knee-jerk” response.

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Archbishop Cottrell, the Church of England’s second most senior clergyman who is performing some functions of the Archbishop of Canterbury while a new head of the Church is selected, told Sky News that Brexit veteran Mr Farage was “not offering any long-term solution to the big issues which are convulsing our world”.

He said in an prerecorded interview aired on Sunday that people should “actively resist the kind of isolationist, short-term, knee-jerk ... send them home’ policies.