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Reform promises agency to ensure illegal migrant removals

BBC News·@Bbc·2 months ago
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An agency to coordinate the deportation of illegal migrants would be launched as a "burning" priority by a Reform UK government, Zia Yusuf has said. In his first speech as the party's home affairs spokesman, Yusuf said a UK Deportation Command would be established to deliver mass deportations through Operation Restoring Justice. Officers would "track down, detain and deport all illegal migrants", he said, housing them in modular accommodation, before running five returns flights a day. However, Labour said 60,000 deportations had already happened in 18 months without "fundamentally un-British" mass removals, while the Tories accused Yusuf of "cutting and pasting" Conservative policy. Yusuf said action was also needed to protect British culture, including new rules to prevent churches being converted into mosques. He also expressed support for a ban on face coverings, like the burka.…

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