Under proposals unveiled as its annual conference begins, the party has pledged to ban people who enter the UK without permission from ever claiming asylum. It would also prevent those whose claims are rejected from challenging decisions in the courts, with appeals instead handled by Home Office officials. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that returnees should "go back to where they came from" or another country deemed safe to receive them, with a strengthened "Removals Force" backed by new powers and a bigger budget.

The Conservatives say they would task officials with removing 750,000 illegal immigrants within five years, under Trump-style deportation plans. Under proposals unveiled as its annual conference begins, the party has pledged to ban people who enter the UK without permission from ever claiming asylum. It would also prevent those whose claims are rejected from challenging decisions in the courts, with appeals instead handled by Home Office officials. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that returnees should "go back to where they came from" or another country deemed safe to receive them, with a strengthened "Removals Force" backed by new powers and a bigger budget.

The Tories say people would be deported to their home country if possible, or to "safe" third countries that would agree to take them. Like Reform, the party says it would negotiate returns agreements with other nations, and threaten to withhold aid spending and visas from countries that decline to co-operate. And the party has already said it would end the UK's 75-year membership of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in a bid to thwart asylum appeals. Speaking to the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Badenoch said illegal migrants should "go back to where they came from". (BBC)