Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say

"For decades, the Tories and Labour have turned the other way while the very fabric of our society has been under assault, Yusuf will say. The social contract has not merely been broken; it's been shattered. Under a Reform government, His Majesty's parliament will be sovereign once again. We will secure our borders, leave the ECHR, and deport those here illegally. My message to the British people is simple: I will secure our borders and make you feel safe."

"Yusuf will say in a speech that Reform would leave the European convention on human rights (ECHR) and put a legal duty on the home secretary to remove illegal migrants. He will promise to create a new agency UK Deportation Command with the capacity to detain 24,000 migrants at a time and deport up to 288,000 annually on five flights a day."

"Labour said the plans were divisive and showed that Reform was planning to deport people who have followed the rules, worked hard and built their lives here our friends, neighbours and colleagues. The Labour party's chair, Anna Turley, said the policies were a direct attack on settled families and fundamentally un-British. She added: Britain is a proud, tolerant and diverse nation, which stands in opposition to the kind of divisive politics stoked by Reform."

Reform UK would create an ICE-style agency dedicated to deporting hundreds of thousands of people and terminate the status of some with indefinite leave to remain. The party would ban conversion of churches into mosques, fund a radical expansion of stop and search, and refocus the Prevent deradicalisation programme on Islamist extremism. Reform would leave the European Convention on Human Rights and impose a legal duty on the home secretary to remove illegal migrants. A proposed UK Deportation Command would detain 24,000 migrants at once and deport up to 288,000 annually. Experts warn costs would be considerable given roughly 2,500 detention spaces. Labour described the plans as divisive and an attack on settled families.

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