Overview

• Reform UK’s ‘Operation Restoring Justice’ targets the detention and removal of up to 600,000 small‑boat arrivals over five years, with detention capacity expanded to about 24,000.
• The plan pledges withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights and repeal of the Human Rights Act in favor of a new Bill of Rights limited to citizens and people with a legal right to work.
• Operational details include five deportation flights daily, large detention sites on military bases, and a £10bn budget with roughly £2bn to secure return agreements with countries such as Afghanistan, Eritrea and Iran.
• A Kabul-based Taliban official told media the group is ready to accept deported Afghans and would welcome aid to support returns, a position reported following Reform’s launch.
• Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds called the proposals “completely unrealistic,” SNP figures labeled them damaging, and small protests formed outside the Oxfordshire event.