Overview

• Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf launched Operation Restoring Justice in Oxfordshire, pledging to detain all small-boat arrivals and deport them with no right to remain.
• The programme targets up to 600,000 removals over five years, expands the detention estate to 24,000 places, and seeks returns deals with Afghanistan, Eritrea and Iran.
• Reform proposes quitting the European Convention on Human Rights, replacing the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights, and disapplying the 1951 Refugee Convention for five years.
• Coverage cited a reported five-year cost of about £10bn, including roughly £2.5bn to build large detention facilities, raising questions over feasibility and logistics.
• Ministers, opposition parties and campaigners condemned the plans as unlawful and unworkable, with a Cabinet Office minister calling them “completely unrealistic” and protesters gathering outside the launch.