Brexit boss Nigel Farage followed up the announcement his Reform UK party has opened talks with El Salvador to offshore prison for migrant offenders with other robust policies to end the present practice of widespread early release over a shortage of prison places.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and spokesman Zia Yusuf rejected the government’s official position that crime is actually falling on Monday morning and vowed to implement a raft of new policies to keep criminals off the streets if elected to form a future British government. Offering a simple and long-effective idea — that criminals should spend time in prison, that rehabilitation is important but those resistant to it should stay in prison, and that serious criminals shouldn’t be released — the Reform leaders said Britain’s prison estate simply being too small is a major limiting factor at present.
This is the fault of the Conservative Party, Farage said, recalling that the former centre-right government had thrown the borders open to a massive increase in the national population but had built practically no new prisons at the same time. Labour inherited this problem, he said, but lacked the imagination or inclination to do
