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Mass Deportations: Legitimacy, Legality, and Logistics
Remove everyone the paper classes as living in Britain illegally, by statute first and then by a two-track returns machine.
The argument
This is the earliest paper on the party’s index, and the legal twin of the later detention-estate plan. The public text describes it as a blueprint for removing every person living in Britain illegally, combining statute with what the party calls a fully costed operational plan. It says the whole illegal population could be removed within three years, and possibly within two.
The legal half is a “Great Clarification Act” to put Parliament above the courts on this subject, repeal of the Equality Act and the Human Rights Act, withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights, and abolition of the asylum system in its current form.
The operational half is two tracks at once: voluntary departures of around half a million people or more a year, pushed by what the paper calls a hostile environment, and 150,000 to 200,000 enforced removals a year. Later papers (the detention estate, Coastal Command, and the belonging statement) assume this statute is what makes universal detention and fast removal lawful. The figures below are the ones Restore Britain states on its own paper page.
What they propose
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A Great Clarification Act reasserting parliamentary sovereignty over the courts in immigration cases.
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Repeal the Equality Act and the Human Rights Act.
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Withdraw the United Kingdom from the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Abolish the asylum system in its present form.
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Voluntary departures of about 500,000 or more a year, driven by a hostile environment.
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Enforced removals of 150,000 to 200,000 a year.
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A planning horizon of about three years for removal of the entire illegal population, with a claim that two years is possible.
In the same file
Borders
Detention estateBuild a 30,000-place secure estate so every new illegal arrival can be detained until removal — capacity online within a year.
Borders
Maritime domainCreate UK Borders & Coastal Command — a civilian maritime force — so the Royal Navy is not the default answer to small boats.