Reform UK deportation plan omits remand prisoners, undermining 10,000-place figure

Reform UK deportation plan omits remand prisoners, undermining 10,000-place figure

Reform UK wants to deport all 10,134 foreign nationals in England and Wales prisons to serve sentences abroad. But the policy document is silent on remand prisoners — those awaiting trial, about a third of the total, the BBC reported. Farage and Yusuf did not answer when pressed. Prison policy is devolved, so the plan covers England and Wales only.

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