It was a textbook attack from Reform UK – a controversial policy that grabs headlines and puts the opposition on the backfoot. Only the opposition targeted by Nigel Farage’s party was an unusual one for them – the Green Party of England and Wales.
Zia Yusuf, Reform’s home affairs spokesman, announced the policy on social media – strolling along a shingle beach in aviator sunglasses, talking into a camera with stirring orchestral music playing in the background.
“A Reform government will not put any migrant detention centre in any constituency with a Reform MP,” he booms. “We will not put them where Reform controls the council.”
Then the kicker: “Of the remaining areas, we will prioritise Green parliamentary constituencies and Green-controlled councils to put these migrant detention centres. That means areas like right here, in Brighton.”
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