Overview

• The plan pledges to deport up to 600,000 people who arrive by small boat within five years and to expand detention capacity to about 24,000 places.
• Reform UK says it would quit the European Convention on Human Rights, scrap the Human Rights Act and introduce a restricted British Bill of Rights.
• Farage said a Reform government would disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention for five years and pursue returns agreements with Afghanistan, Eritrea and Iran.
• Keir Starmer rejected Farage’s warning of a “genuine threat to public order,” while Conservatives called the package recycled and Lib Dems accused it of tearing up rights.
• The Oxfordshire launch drew small protests and sharp criticism from local councillors, though Reform’s sole county councillor backed the proposals and urged more detention sites.