Overview
- Home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf launched the plan in Dover, proposing a UK Deportation Command with capacity to detain 24,000 people at once and target up to 288,000 removals a year.
- The package features an Illegal Migration Mass Deportation Act and withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights to limit court intervention in removals.
- Reform proposes visa freezes on Pakistan, Eritrea, Somalia, Syria, Afghanistan and Sudan until they accept the return of people the UK deems unlawfully present.
- Domestic measures include scrapping Indefinite Leave to Remain for renewable five-year visas, ending Universal Credit for foreign nationals, expanding stop and search, overhauling Prevent, and granting listed status to all churches.
- Yusuf said the proposed force would be unarmed and vowed to face down protests, as Labour, the Liberal Democrats and rights groups condemned the proposals and raised doubts about deliverability and human-rights compliance.