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UK Plans Immediate Deportation of Foreign Criminals
Above: Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood leaves 10 Downing Street. London, U.K. on July 22, 2025. Image copyright: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing/Getty Images
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Left narrative
Mahmood inherited a prison system on the brink, but chasing the right with anti-foreigner policies won’t outflank Reform — it just entrenches their narrative. Real fairness means investing in rehabilitation, ending overcrowding through sentencing reform, and treating all offenders by the same rules, whatever their nationality.
Right narrative
The government's rushed deportation pledge is nothing more than a desperate half-measure, watered down by endless legal loopholes and left-wing activists guaranteed to abuse the ECHR. Without a zero-tolerance policy for all illegal arrivals and convicted foreign criminals, the boats will keep coming and Britain's prisons will keep filling beyond capacity.
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