Farage Plans Life Sentences, 30,000 Police to Slash UK Crime

Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, has unveiled a radical £17.4 billion plan aimed at halving crime within five years by implementing a tough 'three strikes and you’re out' policy that could lead to life imprisonment for repeat offenders. He pledged to recruit 30,000 additional police officers prioritizing 'physically tougher' candidates, reopen mothballed courts, create pop-up custody suites, and build five new 'Nightingale' prisons on former military land. Farage also proposed deporting thousands of foreign criminals back to their home countries, including plans to send British offenders abroad to serve sentences in nations like El Salvador and Kosovo, with ongoing talks with countries such as Albania to repatriate criminals. He emphasized zero tolerance on crime, including prosecuting every shoplifting offense and extensive stop-and-search operations to combat knife crime. Farage warned that the public's growing anger over migrant-related crime could lead to civil unrest, citing violent protests linked to migrant offenses, and stressed the need for stringent law enforcement to restore public trust and safety. His proposals reflect a hardline stance on immigration, crime, and law enforcement aimed at making Reform UK the toughest party on law and order in the country’s history.