Overview

• The blueprint, dubbed Operation Restoring Justice, would bar small-boat arrivals from claiming asylum, impose automatic detention, and schedule five charter removal flights every day.
• Reform UK proposes withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights, repealing the Human Rights Act and passing an Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill that places a statutory duty on the home secretary to deport.
• Detention capacity for about 24,000 people would be created on surplus RAF sites, with a five-year price tag of roughly £10 billion covering centres, staffing, flights and “diplomatic incentives.”
• Farage says returns deals would be pursued with countries including Afghanistan and Eritrea, with options such as Rwanda or Ascension Island for third-country processing and a voluntary return scheme offering payments to leave.
• The announcement comes as Reform leads recent polls and Tory selection-rule changes stoke defection speculation, while protests and court fights over asylum hotels continue and the full policy text is slated for release on Tuesday.