Conservatives unveil mass deportation plan, Reform says Tories are copying its policy

The Conservative Party unveiled a policy to automatically deport any foreign national convicted of an offence, raising the projected annual removals from roughly 6,000 to 40,000 and excluding only minor violations such as parking tickets. Reform Party’s home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf denounced the proposal as a direct copy of Reform’s own agenda and blamed the Conservatives for the migrant crisis. The scheme is linked to a broader strategy to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights, repeal the Human Rights Act, exit the Council of Europe’s anti-trafficking convention and impose visa sanctions on non-cooperating states.

Additional measures would strip naturalised dual nationals of British citizenship after serving sentences of more than five years and expand facial-recognition policing in high-crime areas. Labour and human-rights advocates argue the plan is impractical, citing cases where deportations were blocked by ECHR protections. The debate underscores growing political tension over prison capacity and the presence of foreign criminals in the UK.