Overview
- Reform UK has pledged to build new migrant detention centers in areas that vote Green and to avoid any constituency or council run by Reform.
- The plan sits inside a five‑year drive called Operation Restoring Justice, with the party estimating about 600,000 removals, new sites holding up to 24,000 people, and legislation to list specific locations while seeking to scrap the Human Rights Act and leave the ECHR.
- Rivals condemned the pledge, with Labour chair Anna Turley calling it grotesque and a new low for Nigel Farage, and Green figures denouncing it as cruel and a tactic to bully voters.
- Voters choose thousands of local councillors on Thursday across England, with simultaneous contests in Scotland and Wales, and forecasts point to heavy Labour losses and large gains for Reform and the Greens.
- Reporting also highlighted a Reform campaign tool branded “Vote Green, Get Illegals” with a postcode checker, drawing warnings that such targeting could face court challenges and raise concerns for communities earmarked to host the sites.