Overview

• At an Oxford Airport event, Reform UK launched “Operation Restoring Justice,” pledging to detain all small-boat arrivals, including women and children, as Farage warned of a threat to public order without swift action.
• The party says it would leave the European Convention on Human Rights, repeal the Human Rights Act, and disapply the Refugee Convention and other international protections to bar asylum claims.
• Farage and senior figure Zia Yusuf outlined plans to expand detention capacity to about 24,000 places, run multiple daily deportation flights, and target roughly 600,000 removals over one parliament, with a stated £10 billion cost and claimed £7 billion savings.
• Reform proposed return deals with countries including Afghanistan, Eritrea and Iran, drawing immediate objections from lawyers and rights groups over legality, torture risks and practical feasibility.
• Downing Street rejected quitting the ECHR and called the plan gimmicks, as Channel crossings reached about 29,000 this year and the government prepared initial returns to France under its one-in, one-out pilot.