Nigel Farage has confirmed he wants to deport women asylum seekers back to the Taliban in Afghanistan if he becomes prime minister.

The Reform UK leader's position on the topic has not been clear, with him previously say he would send women back to the fundamentalist regime that took over after western militaries withdrew, before then saying he wouldn't.

Mr Farage was speaking to Sky News' political editor Beth Rigby at the Reform UK party conference in Birmingham.

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When asked if he would "detain" women and children and "send them back", the Clacton MP said "yes".

Challenged on when he said in August that he was not "discussing" women and children, Mr Farage claimed this was a reference to his desire to seeing men detai

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