Monday, August 10th 2026 - 09:23 UTC
The precedent invoked by Reform UK is the arrangement reached by Donald Trump's administration with El Salvador
Britain's Reform UK party, led by Nigel Farage, has opened contacts with the government of El Salvador to transfer foreign prisoners to jails in that country should it win the next United Kingdom general election, which must be held by 2029 at the latest. The report was published on Monday by the newspaper The Sun and has not been confirmed by San Salvador.
The party's home affairs spokesman, Zia Yusuf, set out its prisons policy on Sunday night. “We will deport all foreign nationals from our jails. If their home countries won't take them back we will send them to serve their sentences in countries like El Salvador and Kosovo,” he said. Yusuf put the number of foreign nationals in British prisons at more than 10,000 and argued that the space freed up would keep dangerous offenders behind bars.
According to The Sun, a delegation headed by party chairman Lee Anderson will travel to Central America in the coming months to assess the feasibility of the scheme, which would involve renting prison places funded by the United Kingdom. The announcement also includes creating 12,000 places through temporary prisons and ending early release for those convicted of serious offenses.
