Overview

• The new force would replace Home Office Immigration Enforcement, with powers that include live facial recognition used without warning.
• Funding would rise to £1.6bn a year to scale removals from roughly 34,000 to 150,000, described as at least 750,000 over a five-year parliament.
• Police would be required to run immigration checks on everyone they stop or arrest, with the Removals Force expected to integrate closely with forces.
• The plan proposes leaving the ECHR, repealing the Human Rights Act and exiting a Council of Europe trafficking convention, while abolishing the immigration tribunal, limiting appeals and removing legal aid in many cases.
• The Conservatives say costs would be covered by closing asylum hotels, as Labour attacks the record on removals and critics highlight ICE controversies, privacy risks and 34,401 small-boat arrivals so far this year.