Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, has launched a bold new crime policy, pledging to halve crime in Britain within five years if his party comes to power.
Central to his plan is the controversial proposal to send up to 10,000 serious offenders to serve their sentences in overseas prisons, including in El Salvador, and to build thousands of new prison places at home. Farage also promises to recruit 30,000 new police officers, implement zero-tolerance policing, and introduce life sentences for repeat serious offenders. Critics, including Labour, have dismissed the proposals as unrealistic, populist, and lacking in detail, while fact-checkers have questioned the feasibility and legality of the plans.
The announcement has sparked intense debate over the future of law and order in the UK, with Farage drawing comparisons to Donald Trump's tough-on-crime rhetoric.
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