The Conservative Party has published the “Deportation Bill” that outlines the party’s plans to “take back control” of Britain’s borders.
It marks the first time the Conservative’s have published a full bill while in opposition.
A party spokesperson said: “This Bill is a direct challenge to the Labour Government’s failure on immigration.
“It spells out exactly what a serious, credible immigration policy looks like—and proves the Conservative Party, under new leadership, is ready to govern with strength and principle.”
The key tenants of the deportation bill include the automatic deportation of anyone who enters the country illegaly, disapplying the Human Rights Act from all immigration-related matters, doubling the residency requirement for indefininte leave to remain from five to 10 years, and introducing a legally bidning cap on annual migration.
A number of other policy changes have been tabled as well, including removing GDPR protections from foreign criminals and illegal migrants and visa sanctions on uncooperative countries.
More stringent tests will also be implemented on partners and civil partners to identify illegitimate relationships or exploitative practices related to relationships such as first-cousin marriage, and scientific age testing will be implemented to end “the scandal of adult migrants pretending to be children to exploit our education and welfare systems.”
Chris Philp MP, Shadow Home Secretary, said: “For months this Labour government has turned a blind eye to the crisis at our borders, as small boat crossings have increased.
“The Conservatives are today introducing the Deportation Bill – a bold, pragmatic and deliverable plan to take back control of our borders and restore public confidence in our immigration system. If Labour can’t or won’t act, we will an introduce a Bill and Labour MPs can vote against it.
“Labour and Reform are both complicit in the trade of empty slogans and hollow promises. Our plan can be enacted now to get immigration back under control.”
The party also claim to be “pushing for new rules to bring an end [to the] era of mass low-skilled migration” by tabling amendments to Labour’s Border Security, Asylum and Immigration bill.
These ammendents aim to reduce the amount of family visas being issues by implementing a £38,700 salary threshold for UK based partners of asylum seekers, mandating that both partners must be over the age of 23 to combat forced or underage marriages, and create criteria that partners must have been married for a minimum of two years, and that no spousal visas will be issued to first cousins.
The new deportation bill comes after headline figures suggest that 10,000 people had crossed the English Channel as of 28 April 2025, the earliest point in the year that the number has reached 10,000 since records began in 2018. In the past three years it took until June to hit this number.
The party has criticised Labour for this figure, saying the government “is not serious about tackling immigration”, while also critiquing Reform UK for having “no plan” for the issue and that the party led by Nigel Farage “cannot be trusted” to crack down on immigration.
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