'We will send you packing': Govt vows to deport foreign criminals immediately after sentencing

Foreign criminals volition beryllium deported from the UK instantly aft they are sentenced, the justness caput has said.

The instrumentality alteration projected by Shabana Mahmood could prevention taxpayers an mean of £54,000 a twelvemonth per situation place.

The changes would use to prisoners serving fixed-term "determinate" sentences.

Authorities would besides clasp their powerfulness not to deport a transgression but alternatively support them successful custody - with examples including if an offender is readying further crimes against the UK's interests oregon nationalist security.

The justness secretary's announcement goes further than a alteration to the instrumentality successful June - expected to travel into unit successful September - meaning prisoners look deportation 30% into their sentence alternatively than the existent 50%.

The authorities volition request parliament to greenlight its connection to bring this down to 0%.

Foreign nationalist offenders marque up astir 12% of the situation population.

Ms Mahmood said: "Our connection is wide - if you maltreatment our hospitality and interruption our laws, we volition nonstop you packing."

She added: "Deportations are up nether this government, and with this caller instrumentality they volition hap earlier than ever before."

Almost 5,200 overseas nationalist offenders person been deported since July 2024, a 14% summation connected the 12 months prior, according to the government.

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According to a Labour source, the erstwhile Conservative authorities relied connected situation transportation agreements with different countries to deport overseas nationalist offenders, successful deals which let inmates to service their custodial condemnation successful their "home" country.

This saw 945 prisoners sent to jails overseas betwixt 2010 and 2023, adjacent to less than 2 criminals per week.

Conservative shadiness justness caput Robert Jenrick said: "In Starmer's topsy-turvy world, investors are fleeing the state successful their droves portion grounds numbers of convulsive and intersexual offenders from overseas are enactment up successful our prisons. It's a farce.

"Yet again Starmer has refused to face our breached quality rights laws.

"He needs to turn a backbone and alteration them truthful we tin really deport these individuals.

"The information of the British nationalist is infinitely much important than the 'rights' of sick overseas criminals.

"If countries won't instrumentality backmost their nationals, Starmer should suspend visas and overseas aid. His soft-touch attack isn't working."