‘Grotesque’: parties criticise Reform UK plan to set up migrant detention centres in Green-voting areas

Pledge ahead of local elections dismissed as ‘not a serious policy’ and ‘profoundly un-British’

Coming just days before millions go to the polls, Zia Yusuf’s announcement that a Reform government would ‘prioritise’ the citing of migrant detention centres in areas with Green MPs or councils was certainly eye-catching.

“That means areas like right here in Brighton,” Reform’s shadow home secretary said with barely concealed relish in a video in which he paced the beachfront at the constituency which elected Britain’s first Green MP.