Nigel Farage set out Reform UK’s most detailed immigration platform to date, promising to detain and deport up to 600,000 people he describes as illegal migrants during the party’s first five-year term in office. The proposal hinges on withdrawing Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights, repealing the Human Rights Act and disapplying other international treaties that currently limit forced removals. Under the scheme, dubbed “Operation Restoring Justice”, Reform would create secure accommodation for 24,000 detainees and charter five removal flights a day. Farage said the programme would cost roughly £10 billion but save £7 billion now spent on housing and processing asylum seekers. Senior aide Zia Yusuf added that the party is exploring £2–3 billion of incentives for foreign governments, including a possible arrangement with the Taliban in Afghanistan, to accept returnees. The plan drew immediate criticism across the political spectrum. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government called the measures “unworkable gimmicks” and warned that quitting the ECHR could undermine the Good Friday Agreement and wider trade accords with the EU. Conservative ministers accused Farage of recycling their own stalled Rwanda strategy, while legal specialists questioned whether mass data-gathering and accelerated removals could survive court scrutiny. Farage argued the overhaul is necessary to head off what he called a “genuine threat to public order” amid record asylum numbers—108,100 applications were logged last year. Nevertheless, the party began rowing back within 24 hours: speaking in Scotland, the Reform leader said women and children would not be removed in the first five years, contradicting comments made at the launch event. The clarification underscored doubts over how the policy would be implemented as immigration again moves to the centre of UK politics.