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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-23T19:54:33.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Mel Stride defends Rwanda plan after being accused of creating 'migration crisis' by Zia Yusuf",
    "Zia Yusuf's immigration crackdown branded a 'vote winner' for Reform: 'Britons are frustrated!'",
    "WATCH: Bridget Phillipson grilled by GB News on Labour's £4billion extra funding for Send children",
    "The GB News Editorial Charter"
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nZia Yusuf has taken aim at \"weak men and women who lack the spine\" as he laid out Reform's immigration policy.\n\nNigel Farage's party pledged today it would deliver net negative immigration and leave the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nReform's Home Affairs spokesman said: \"For years, the Tory-Labour uni-party has looked the other way while the very fabric of our society has been under attack. We’ve been told to accept open borders.\n\n\"A country that spends £60billion a year on defence should stand powerless as men arrive in small boats day after day, we should shrug as our streets change, knife crime rises and the traditions and culture of Britain are steadily and heartbreakingly eroded.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\"I say to you today, those things are not inevitable.\n\n\"They are the deliberate choices of weak men and women that lack the courage, lack the spine and lack the moral clarity to serve the country they were elected to serve.\n\n\"I do not accept this, Nigel Farage does not accept this and the British people do not accept this.\"\n\n\nReform UK has revealed plans to set up a UK Deportation Command if it was to enter government, with the aim to \"track down, detain and deport” people in the country illegally, aiming for up to 288,000 people each year.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nMr Yusuf said it is \"not true\" the proposed agency will face the same issues Donald Trump’s Ice programme in the US, which saw an immigration crackdown in Minnesota lead to mass detentions, protests and two deaths.\n\nSpeaking in Dover today, he said the UK is being “invaded” by migrants as he pitched Reform’s mass deportation programme as the biggest in UK history.\n\nDefending his choice of language, Mr Yusuf told a press conference in Dover: “I know many in the establishment gasp at that word.\n\n“They may well clutch their pearls in the television studios, but the dictionary definition of invasion is an incursion by a large number of people in an unwanted way.\n\n### LATEST DEVELOPMENTS\n\n\n\n\n  * Mel Stride defends Rwanda plan after being accused of creating 'migration crisis' by Zia Yusuf\n  * Zia Yusuf's immigration crackdown branded a 'vote winner' for Reform: 'Britons are frustrated!'\n  * WATCH: Bridget Phillipson grilled by GB News on Labour's £4billion extra funding for Send children\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n“Make no mistake, as home secretary I will end and indeed reverse this invasion, because the patience of the British people is now exhausted.”\n\nReform has further revealed plans to impose “visa freezes” on Pakistan, Afghanistan and Syria if the countries refuse to take back migrants with no legal right to stay in Britain.\n\nThe party said it expects to deport more than 600,000 in its first term in government.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nReacting to the speech, shadow home secretary Chris Phlip said Mr Yusuf has “nothing new to offer beyond copying and pasting Conservative plans”.\n\nLiberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Max Wilkinson added that Reform’s “Trump-inspired plans for an Ice-style force will only bring chaos and disorder to Britain’s streets, not the order and control our immigration system needs”.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards:The GB News Editorial Charter **",
  "title": "Zia Yusuf slams 'weak men and women who lack the spine to defend the country' as he unveils Reform's immigration plan"
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