Overview
- - Reform UK’s ‘Operation Restoring Justice’ promises arrests on arrival, detention in disused military bases, and large-scale air removals over a five-year term.
- - The plan seeks to withdraw the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights and to rewrite domestic rights law to limit legal challenges to expulsions.
- - Operational elements include remote removal centers targeting capacity for 24,000 people within 18 months, transfers to Rwanda or Albania, use of overseas territories, and £2,500 offers for voluntary return.
- - Media reports put the five-year cost at about £10 billion, with Farage also proposing funding deals with origin countries such as Afghanistan and Eritrea.
- - Reaction has been sharply divided: a Downing Street spokesperson said the government does not rule anything out, Labour and Conservatives questioned feasibility, the Liberal Democrats rejected the plan on humanitarian grounds, and the Taliban were reported by the Telegraph as willing to accept repatriations.