Reform UK leader Nigel Faraj has proposed to send some prisoners to he sentenced to abroad, as he said that about 30,000 will be constructed in jail places and would cost £ 17.4bn.
Speaking at an event in London, he also announced a plan to construct five jails, return foreign prisoners to his original country and recruit 30,000 police officers.
Faraj said that Britain “was no less than social decline” and an improvement government would reduce the crime in five years.
Labor said the policies were “unknown” – while the conservatives accused Faraj of “offering a difficult thing without an unconscious idea”.
After his speech, when asked how the policies would be funded, Faraj said that there would be no need to increase tax and the improvement was advocating “huge amounts of public expenses”, including “HS2 rail project and net-gerro policies”.
He said that the crime costs the British economy £ 170BN, saying: “It’s not really a question whether we can take the risk of doing so – this is really a question whether we cannot do it?”
The Reform UK estimates that its proposals will cost £ 17.4bn in five years, with an annual cost of £ 3.48bn.
The plan to hire more police officers makes £ 10.5bn of the overall bill.
To create more prison places, Faraj said that his party would use the army to build five new low-protection ‘Knightingale’ jails on the Ministry of Defense Land, making 12,400 locations for “lower class criminals”.
Knightingale label is a reference to network of emergency temporary hospitals Set during the Kovid epidemic.
Faraj said that he would be ready to force reform-operated councils to accept new jails in his area, saying that it would bring well-paid jobs to local communities.
Improvement is also proposing to transfer foreign prisoners to their original country and make 10,400 places. In return, Britain will be ready to accept British criminals serving sentences abroad, he said.
The party states that 10,000 jail spaces can be found by sending serious criminals to serve their punishment abroad.
Faraj said that his party would consider several places and indicate Kosovo, Estonia and Al Salvador as possibilities, although when pressed on the human rights records of the Central American country, he said it was a “extreme example”.
Earlier this year, Al Salvadorian President … Offered To take prisoners in the US – people with American citizenship – and include them in Mega -Jail in Al Salvador.
Other countries have made similar arrangements – Denmark in 2021 Agreed to pay Kosovo annual fee of £ 12.8m for the initial five -year period to rent 300 of its prison places.
The gradual UK governments of Britain have allegedly detected the idea of sending prisoners to Estonia.
The BBC has been told that former conservative ministers and present labor people came to see that such a scheme would be very expensive.
In September last year, the government stated that it was “not making any such plan or announcement in relation to Estonian prison places”.
The growing gel population, combined with the lack of new jails, puts pressure on the system.
Last year, the Jail Governors Association warned that the prisons in England and Wales were away from getting out of space, leading to the government. Let some prisoners go early from jail.
In response to the speech, Labor Party President Al Raves said that reforms were more interested in headline-chasing than serious policy-making in the interests of the British people. “
He said that “pointing to the Labor Party’s plan,” was supporting his word with action ” 13,000 and rent Police Officer and Community Assistance Officer in 2029 till the next election time.
A spokesperson of the Conservative Party said that Faraj “was offering a tough conversation without an unconscious idea of how to distribute it”, saying that he did not say how he would fund the places of additional jails.
He said that Tory pass a law It becomes easy to deport foreign criminals.
