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Nigel Farage has said convulsive UK offenders could beryllium jailed overseas nether his plans to chopped transgression by half.
The Reform UK person named El Salvador arsenic a apt destination, though helium said helium has not held conversations with officials determination and "multiple" partners would beryllium considered.
El Salvador is location to a notorious mega-prison, the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT).
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In a code connected instrumentality and bid connected Monday, Mr Farage said: "It is rather astonishing that to support a captive successful a British situation it costs astir £52,000 a year.
"You could nonstop a kid Eton for that price.
"So we tin nonstop immoderate of our worst convulsive criminals overseas to service their terms. If that means Ian Huntley goes to El Salvador. Well, our cognition is 'so beryllium it'."
Huntley is serving a beingness word for the murders of 2 10-year-old girls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, successful Soham, Cambridgeshire, successful 2002.
Asked if helium had spoken to immoderate members of the El Salvadoran authorities astir his plans, Mr Farage said helium had not but "we bash cognize they're rather blessed to instrumentality American convulsive offenders".
In March, the Trump medication deported much than 130 alleged Venezuelan pack members to the CECOT while the US president has besides spoken of sending "homegrown criminals" to the ace max facility.
Reform UK said it wanted to make 10,000 "dynamic" situation places wide by renting cells successful 3rd enactment countries, astatine a outgo of £250m per year. This would impact "multiple partners including El Salvador", according to a papers outlining the program successful further detail.
This volition travel alongside a fig of policies aimed astatine cutting transgression by fractional if Mr Farage's enactment wins the adjacent election.
The Clacton MP wants to prosecute different 30,000 constabulary officers, enactment halt and hunt successful each country wherever weapon transgression is prevalent and instrumentality a zero-tolerance argumentation to shoplifting truthful each offence "however small" is prosecuted.
Mr Farage besides said helium would escaped up to 10,000 much situation places by deporting overseas criminals to their state of origin, saying helium has already spoken to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama astir this.
He said helium would instrumentality backmost British offenders who are incarcerated overseas successful instrumentality but if countries are inactive reluctant "we'll marque it precise straightforward. We'll conscionable extremity travel".
Mr Farage did not accidental however overmuch the plans would outgo oregon however they would beryllium funded successful his speech, which marks the commencement of a six week "lawless Britain" campaign.
However, successful effect to questions from media helium said the plans would outgo £17.4bn implicit a five-year parliament.
He said the outgo of transgression is acold greater than that truthful "it isn't truly a question of tin we spend to bash this, it's truly a question of we can't spend not to bash this".
He insisted helium would not person to rise taxes, saying the wealth would travel from "huge cuts" to nationalist spending including axing HS2 and nett zero policies and reducing the size of the state.
Mr Farage claimed his plans are indispensable due to the fact that parts of Britain are facing "nothing abbreviated of societal collapse" owed to spiralling transgression rates.
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Sir Keir Starmer has made halving superior convulsive transgression 1 of the missions of his government, but the pledge has been somewhat overshadowed by his controversial aboriginal situation merchandise scheme, aimed astatine freeing up situation capableness owed to overcrowding.
A spokesperson for the premier curate said helium is already deporting overseas nationalist offenders, adding that Mr Farage's plans are "unfunded and deficiency detail" and that "we are getting connected with it".
The spokesperson ruled retired moving prisoners overseas, saying the authorities is "focused connected investing and fixing prisons here".
He added: "In the past 14 years we saw lone 500 places added to situation property and since past we person been going further to escaped up abstraction successful our prisons."
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