Kemi Badenoch deportation plan promises to deport 750,000 illegal migrants with a new US-style Removals Force if Conservatives return to power

Kemi Badenoch deportation plan has sparked fierce political debate after the Conservative leader pledged to deport more than 750,000 illegal migrants if her party returns to power.

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Unveiling what she called Britain’s “toughest border policy yet,” Badenoch announced the creation of a US-style “Removals Force” as the centrepiece of her new Borders Plan, ahead of the Conservative Party conference in Manchester.

Modelled after Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Removals Force would be tasked with tracking down and deporting undocumented migrants in record numbers.

According to Badenoch, the unit would replace existing Home Office enforcement teams, with its funding doubled from £800 million to £1.6 billion.

Under the ambitious plan, annual deportations would rise from 34,000 to 150,000, reaching a cumulative total of 750,000 by the end of a parliamentary term.

The Conservatives say the initiative will be financed by shutting down costly asylum hotels and cutting into the £4.76 billion annual asylum budget.

Badenoch said: “We must tackle the scourge of illegal immigration into Britain and secure our borders. That is why the Conservatives are setting out a serious and comprehensive new plan to end this crisis.”

Her Kemi Badenoch deportation plan forms part of a seven-point Borders strategy that also includes withdrawing the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (ECAT).

Badenoch’s team argues that leaving both treaties would “remove legal blockades” that have long hindered deportations.

Other measures in the plan include a total ban on asylum claims for illegal entrants, ending legal aid and judicial reviews in immigration cases, deporting all foreign criminals within a week, and imposing visa restrictions or aid cuts on countries that refuse to take back their citizens.

Party insiders insist the policy is “serious and deliverable,” rejecting claims that it mimics far-right rhetoric. “This isn’t about slogans — it’s about real reform,” said one senior Conservative source.

However, critics have condemned the proposal as extreme and politically desperate. Nick Thomas-Symonds, Minister for EU Relations, dismissed it as “an isolationist fantasy,” accusing Badenoch of offering “the same fake fix as Nigel Farage.”

With Reform UK leading the Conservatives two-to-one in current opinion polls, Badenoch’s hardline shift appears aimed at reclaiming the right-wing base of the party and reigniting her political momentum.

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Analysts say the Kemi Badenoch deportation plan represents the clearest sign yet that the Conservatives are prepared to double down on border control as their defining campaign issue heading into the next general election.