Overview

• Reform UK’s plan would withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights and disapply other treaties, including the 1951 Refugee Convention and the UN anti-torture convention, to prevent courts from blocking removals.
• Nigel Farage proposes up to 600,000 deportations over five years with as many as five removal flights each day, stating that women and children would be detained on arrival.
• The document outlines a new Deportation Command, expanded detention capacity with a planned 24,000‑person facility, biometric tracking, and data sharing across agencies and private entities.
• Human-rights groups and political opponents condemned the proposals, warning of risks of torture, imprisonment, or death for people returned to unsafe countries and criticizing rhetoric linking asylum seekers to crime.
• The pledge follows a sharp rise in arrivals, with nearly 29,000 Channel crossings so far in 2025 and more than 111,000 asylum applications to June, as the government pursues a limited UK–France returns pilot after dropping the Rwanda scheme.