Overview

• Farage set out a blueprint to leave the European Convention on Human Rights and to disapply key refugee and human-rights treaties to enable mass removals.
• He pledged a new law creating a legal duty on the Home Secretary to carry out expulsions, with failure to do so constituting a breach of the law.
• The plan includes building detention facilities on military sites for up to 24,000 people and targets 288,000 deportations per year.
• A £2 billion fund would finance return agreements with foreign governments, including approaches to Afghanistan, with the Taliban reported as ready to accept returnees.
• Labour has rejected the core proposals, though officials signaled no options are ruled out on returns after recent tightening that included a UK–France migrant exchange, and polls cited put Reform UK at about 28% to Labour’s 20%.