Reform UK would create an ICE-style agency dedicated to deporting hundreds of thousands of people, as well as terminating the status of those with indefinite leave to remain (ILR), the party will say.<\/p>\n
It would also ban the conversion of churches into mosques and fund a radical expansion of stop and search, the party\u2019s new home affairs spokesperson, Zia Yusuf, will also say in a speech on Monday. The deradicalisation programme Prevent would also have its mandate redrawn to focus on Islamist extremism.<\/p>\n
Labour said the plans were divisive and showed that Reform was planning \u201cto deport people who have followed the rules, worked hard and built their lives here \u2013 our friends, neighbours and colleagues\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Labour party\u2019s chair, Anna Turley, said the policies were \u201ca direct attack on settled families and fundamentally un-British\u201d. She added: \u201cBritain is a proud, tolerant and diverse nation, which stands in opposition to the kind of divisive politics stoked by Reform.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
He will promise to create a new agency \u2013 UK Deportation Command \u2013 with the capacity to detain 24,000 migrants at a time and deport up to 288,000 annually on five flights a day. Experts have previously said the costs of such an expansion would be considerable \u2013 as of April 2024 there were approximately 2,500 detention spaces.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor decades, the Tories and Labour have turned the other way while the very fabric of our society has been under assault,\u201d Yusuf will say. \u201cThe social contract has not merely been broken; it\u2019s been shattered. Under a Reform government, His Majesty\u2019s parliament will be sovereign once again.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the speech, Yusuf will explicitly blame the former prime minister Boris Johnson for the increase in net migration, saying the Conservative leader \u201cthrew open our borders\u201d and that granting ILR would mean \u201ca lifetime of living off the British taxpayer\u201d because of new access to benefits.<\/p>\n