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"The Reform party's policy is simply not rooted in reality. They want to institute a mass deportation programme with no real, or workable, idea of where people would be deported to. Reform's policy would require a returns policy to be negotiated with regimes such as the Taliban and Iran, and may, by their own admission, involve paying those regimes to do so. Which is impractical and extremely concerning, as well as unlawful (as our own courts ruled in the Rwanda case). Leaving the ECHR and repealing the Human Rights Act is excessive and dangerous and would put the UK in the company of Russia and Belarus, outside of the ECHR, whilst also undermining rights at home and our international agreements, not least the Good Friday Agreement, our treaties with the EU and our returns agreement with France. It would also, in all likelihood, preclude further cooperation and law enforcement in dealing with small boats coming from the continent and so increase, rather than reduce, the numbers reaching our shores. Instead of pursuing dead end and counterproductive policies, the Labour Government has negotiated a returns policy with France, and is committed to exploring how the ECHR might be reformed, on a multilateral basis, to better deal with the reality Britain, and its neighbours face."
August 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM