{"id":179422,"date":"2025-10-04T21:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T21:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179422\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T21:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T21:39:08","slug":"conservatives-pledge-to-remove-750000-migrants-under-borders-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179422\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives pledge to remove 750,000 migrants under borders plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Conservatives’ plan comes after Reform UK made similar pledges over the summer to take the UK out of the ECHR and deport 600,000 migrants<\/a> within five years if it won power.<\/p>\n

Badenoch sought to portray her party’s plans as more credible, adding that it was backed by “comprehensive legal analysis” in the form of a review by Tory peer and former justice minister Lord Wolfson of Tredegar.<\/p>\n

“Reform have nothing but announcements that fall apart on arrival,” she added.<\/p>\n

The Tory move to leave the ECHR creates a key dividing line with the Labour government, which has opted against leaving the treaty but is reviewing how it is applied<\/a> in UK law.<\/p>\n

Labour has also pledged tougher action to deal with small boat crossings over the English Channel, which are set to break record numbers this year.<\/p>\n

Labour recently set out plans to lengthen refugees’ route to permanent settlement in the UK in a bid to make the country less appealing to migrants, and has negotiated a “one in, one out” pilot scheme with France.<\/p>\n

Unlike Reform, the Tories are not promising to formally disapply the Refugee Convention, a 1951 treaty that prevents signatory countries from returning refugees to countries where they face serious threats to their life or freedom.<\/p>\n

But the party says it would legislate to prevent courts having regard to it in asylum cases, with a pledge to leave if “activist judges attempt to override Parliament”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Conservatives’ plan comes after Reform UK made similar pledges over the summer to take the UK out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-179422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}