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Tories accused of 'shamelessly copying Reform’s policies' over plan to deport foreign criminals

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The Conservatives have been accused of "shamelessly copying Reform's policies" over their plans to deport foreign criminals. Kemi Badenoch's party has announced they will be removing all foreign criminals convicted of anything over the most minor of offences, which would rocket deportation numbers from 6,000 to 40,000 a year. The new plan, however, has been criticised by Reform as a duplication of their own policies. Reform's home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf accused the Tories of "creating" the migrant crisis. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say He said: "A Conservative government created this crisis. Now they’re shamelessly copying Reform’s policies. They haven’t factored in that no one trusts them to deliver. "The British people will neither forget nor forgive the Tories for importing five million people during their 14 years in power, building just 455 prison places to cope, and overseeing a fourfold surge in foreign national offenders. "They had every opportunity to fix it. They faile