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Read a summary of the policies below:
Asylum system
Reform suspends the asylum system for a full parliamentary term. It voids pending claims, declines new claims and marks applicants for deportation.
Reform makes no grants of refugee status or humanitarian protection.
Tribunals do not hear the 90,341 outstanding appeals. Reform deports the claimants.
Reform leaves the ECHR, repeals the Human Rights Act 1998, disapplies the 1951 Refugee Convention and passes an Illegal Migration (Mass Deportations) Bill.
Resettlement and past grants
Reform closes resettlement routes immediately. It revokes leave for anyone who arrived via Labour’s reopened routes and deports them.
Reform reviews the Afghan schemes. It protects only MoD-verified veterans, whom it expects to number in the hundreds. It sends others home or to a safe third country.
A 2029 Reform government reviews all refugee and humanitarian grants made in the previous 5 years. This covers over 400,000 people.
Reform revokes status for illegal entry, visa overstay or a now-safe origin country. Revocation extends to dependents.
Pull factors
Reform restricts Universal Credit, Housing Benefit, free childcare, most non-contributory benefits and social housing to British citizens. Ukrainians and BNOs keep access.
The paper claims refugees cost almost £1.7 billion a year in Universal Credit.
Reform ends hotels and dispersal accommodation, and repeals the legal right to accommodation and subsistence.
Reform builds detention capacity for 24,000.
Operation Fortress: the Royal Navy intercepts boats and returns migrants to France or Belgium within 100 days, with or without French cooperation. The MoU with Rassemblement National backs this.
Illegal working
“Deliveroo Law”: CEOs and directors of large firms face criminal liability. Reform fines companies 10% of global turnover and sets up public tip lines.
Reform gives councils fining powers. Licensing, trading standards and fire officers carry out immigration checks.
Councils create new licensing regimes for vape shops, corner shops and Turkish barbers.
Past offenders must take out surety bonds or insurance. Firms can use a Bribery Act-style “adequate procedures” defence.
Foreign offenders
Reform deports any non-British national on conviction, regardless of sentence. The current threshold is 12 months. Reform detains offenders until removal.
Offenders with sentences over 12 months serve them in rented prisons abroad, such as El Salvador and Kosovo. Reform bans them from re-entry for life.
Reform drops the MoJ appeal and publishes convictions by nationality and offence.
Reform publishes quarterly arrest, charge and conviction statistics by nationality, plus a Danish-style annual crime index.
Audit and data
Reform audits arrivals since 2010 still in Britain, using Home Office, HMRC, DWP, NHS and council records.
Reform produces the first official estimate of the illegal population since 2005. The Home Office put the 2005 figure at 430,000.
Reform publishes details of commercial landlords leasing to Serco, Clearsprings and Mears.
Enforcement across the state
Inspectors add immigration checks to food hygiene, fire, HSE and trading standards visits. The paper claims this gives 10 to 40 times current capacity.
Reform stops landlords leasing homes to Home Office contractors, which the paper says frees at least 6,000 properties.
Reform raises Right to Rent fines from the current £5,000 per lodger and £10,000 per occupier. Councils keep the revenue and register unpaid fines as a local land charge.
Driving licences lapse when immigration status ends. Insurers must verify status, and police seize vehicles.
Companies House checks immigration status, as do UTR and CIS registrations.
Every part of the state must share data with Deportation Command.
Forcing returns
Reform bans visas for non-cooperating countries, naming Pakistan, Somalia, Eritrea, Syria, Afghanistan and Sudan.
Reform imposes tariffs on non-cooperating countries that have few nationals in Britain. It escalates to airline and transit bans.
Reform abolishes Indefinite Leave to Remain, so all foreign nationals need renewable visas. It keeps EU Settled Status.
