Conservatives Unveil Ambitious Plan to Expel 150,000 People Annually.

The Conservative Party has announced sweeping immigration enforcement proposals that would see officials ordered to remove 750,000 individuals from Britain over a five-year parliamentary term if the party returns to power.

The policy package, revealed at the start of the party’s annual conference, centers on a fundamental overhaul of asylum and deportation procedures. Under the proposals, anyone entering Britain through unauthorized channels would face a lifetime ban on seeking asylum protection.

The plans also include stripping rejected asylum seekers of their right to judicial appeals, instead placing challenge procedures entirely within Home Office control. Border enforcement teams would operate under instructions to process removals “within hours or at most a few days” of identifying individuals.

Central to the strategy is a restructured enforcement body—dubbed a “Removals Force”—that would see its annual budget increase to £1.6 billion, representing a doubling of current funding levels.

The announcement comes as Conservative members convene in Manchester for their four-day conference, with party leader Kemi Badenoch facing challenging opinion polls and mounting pressure from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

In recent days, the party has already committed to withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights, ending Britain’s 75-year participation in the treaty in order to circumvent asylum-related legal challenges.

The immigration enforcement unit would receive enhanced authority alongside an additional £820 million yearly, which party officials claim could be generated by shuttering temporary accommodation facilities currently housing asylum seekers.

Conservative planners envision the restructured unit processing a minimum of 150,000 departures annually—a target encompassing current undocumented residents, future unauthorized arrivals, and foreign nationals convicted of offenses exceeding minor traffic violations.

The proposed removal rate would represent approximately a fivefold increase from the 35,000 people who departed Britain in the past year, most of whom left under voluntary arrangements.