Overview

• Zia Yusuf said on BBC Radio 4 that payments to Afghanistan’s Taliban for returns would be "quite reasonable," citing existing UK aid to the country.
• The party costed a £10bn, five‑year immigration plan with a £2bn fund to buy returns agreements with origin or third countries.
• Reform UK proposes leaving the European Convention on Human Rights, scrapping the Human Rights Act and introducing a British Bill of Rights limited to citizens and lawful residents.
• People arriving via unauthorised routes such as small boats would be denied asylum, held at repurposed military bases and deported to their home nations or to states like Rwanda or Albania.
• Housing minister Matthew Pennycook dismissed the proposals as poorly conceived and doubted Reform UK could secure the necessary international agreements.