Overview

• At Monday’s Women for Reform conference, Dame Andrea Jenkyns recounted death threats, sledgehammer harassment and a public flashing incident as evidence she no longer feels safe in Britain.
• Sarah Pochin warned that most small-boat arrivals are young, military-aged men from predominantly Muslim countries and claimed foreign nationals accounted for a quarter of 2024’s sexual assault convictions.
• Reform UK proposed deporting small-boat migrants housed in HMOs, expanding foreign criminal deportations and mandating police responses to all reported migrant sexual misconduct.
• A Labour spokesperson accused Reform UK of voting against Labour’s violence-against-women laws and opposing the Online Safety Act, arguing the party lacks credible safety proposals and risks scapegoating migrants.
• Their push comes as the government implements new border enforcement measures under the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, including a France returns pilot, smuggling-ad bans and a £100m boost for the NCA.