25 minutes agoShareSaveJoshua NevettPolitical reporterJennifer McKiernanShareSaveReform UK says it would offer payments to countries like Afghanistan as part of a plan to enable hundreds of thousands of migrant deportations if it won power.Party leader Nigel Farage set out a five-year plan to detain and deport all migrants who arrive in the UK without permission and suggested 600,000 people could be sent back over five years.Under the plan, named Operation Restoring Justice, Reform UK would bar anyone who comes to the UK on small boats from claiming asylum, and strike deals with countries to return those people.Reform UK says it would make £2bn available for returns deals, with aid offered as an incentive and sanctions potentially imposed on uncooperative countries.Launching his plan, Farage described illegal migration as a “scourge” on the UK.”The only way we’ll stop the boats is by detaining and deporting absolutely anyone who comes via that route,” Farage said.”And if we do that, the boats will stop coming in days because there will be no incentive,” he added.Farage, who had previously said mass deportations were a “political impossibility”, said his party had now come up with “a credible plan, so that we can deport hundreds of thousands of people over the five years of a Reform government”.During the news conference, Farage asked senior Reform UK figure Zia Yusuf whether it was realistic to deport 600,000 people within five years, and in reply he said “totally, yeah”.Reform UK’s policy would amount to a huge increase in the number of deportations and goes further than any previous plans outlined by other political parties.There were 10,652 asylum-related returns in the year to June, according to Home Office data.Under the plan, people would be arrested on arrival, detained at disused RAF bases and, if agreements were reached, returned to their countries of origin, including Afghanistan and Eritrea, where a significant number of people on small boats come from.The party says it would build removal centres in remote areas of the country under plans to detain up to 24,000 people within 18 months.The party would also look to countries such as Rwanda and Albania to house migrants, and seek to use British overseas territories such as Ascension Island as a “fallback” if people awaiting deportation could not be sent elsewhere.Reform UK said it would aim to scale up deportation charter flights to five per day.A Reform UK government would give migrants the option to return voluntarily and offer them £2,500 for doing so as part of a “carrot and stick approach”, the party sa …
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[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nn25 minutes agoShareSaveJoshua NevettPolitical reporterJennifer McKiernanShareSaveReform UK says it would offer payments to countries like Afghanistan as part of a plan to enable hundreds of thousands of migrant deportations if it won power.Party leader Nigel Farage set out a five-year plan to detain and deport all migrants who arrive in the UK without permission and suggested 600,000 people could be sent back over five years.Under the plan, named Operation Restoring Justice, Reform UK would bar anyone who comes to the UK on small boats from claiming asylum, and strike deals with countries to return those people.Reform UK says it would make £2bn available for returns deals, with aid offered as an incentive and sanctions potentially imposed on uncooperative countries.Launching his plan, Farage described illegal migration as a “scourge” on the UK.”The only way we’ll stop the boats is by detaining and deporting absolutely anyone who comes via that route,” Farage said.”And if we do that, the boats will stop coming in days because there will be no incentive,” he added.Farage, who had previously said mass deportations were a “political impossibility”, said his party had now come up with “a credible plan, so that we can deport hundreds of thousands of people over the five years of a Reform government”.During the news conference, Farage asked senior Reform UK figure Zia Yusuf whether it was realistic to deport 600,000 people within five years, and in reply he said “totally, yeah”.Reform UK’s policy would amount to a huge increase in the number of deportations and goes further than any previous plans outlined by other political parties.There were 10,652 asylum-related returns in the year to June, according to Home Office data.Under the plan, people would be arrested on arrival, detained at disused RAF bases and, if agreements were reached, returned to their countries of origin, including Afghanistan and Eritrea, where a significant number of people on small boats come from.The party says it would build removal centres in remote areas of the country under plans to detain up to 24,000 people within 18 months.The party would also look to countries such as Rwanda and Albania to house migrants, and seek to use British overseas territories such as Ascension Island as a “fallback” if people awaiting deportation could not be sent elsewhere.Reform UK said it would aim to scale up deportation charter flights to five per day.A Reform UK government would give migrants the option to return voluntarily and offer them £2,500 for doing so as part of a “carrot and stick approach”, the party sa …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]
