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I am in conversation with Edi Rama from Albania, and I think he has agreed to take back all the Albanian prisoners in this country, which is quite positive...
Nigel Farage has pledged to send Britain’s worst offenders to prison in El Salvador as part of a five-year plan to halve crime rates.
The leader of Reform UK unveiled a £17.4 billion scheme to increase police and prison capacity, and said he would introduce new rules to increase the number of prison sentences handed down by judges.
The policy is modelled on a similar idea by Donald Trump, who has paid El Salvador billions of dollars to house offenders.
“ I haven’t spoken to El Salvador yet, but we know they’re quite happy to take in violent American offenders, so I don’t see any reason why [they wouldn’t]. They want the money, they want the revenue, ” Farage said.
The suggestion from Reform comes amid a serious overcrowding problem in UK prisons, which has prompted the Government to release thousands of criminals early. Farage also said that Prime Minister Edi Rama has agreed to return to Albania all Albanian citizens who are in UK prisons.
The leader of the right-wing Reform UK party said during the conference that he has held talks with Edi Rama about an agreement that foresees the deportation of Albanian convicts from Britain.
" I am in conversation with Edi Rama from Albania, and I think he has agreed that he will take back all the Albanian prisoners in this country, which is quite positive," he said, The Telegraph reports.
Other elements of the Reform crime plan include hiring 30,000 new police officers at a total cost of £10.5 billion over five years, according to the costing document, and building 12,400 new prison places in Britain.
Farage said the rise in some crimes in the UK had led the country to “nothing short of social collapse” and disputed official figures showing that crime has fallen on average in England and Wales over the past decade.
Reform’s policies were attacked by all three other major parties in Westminster, who accused Farage of designing policies in “amateur’s time”.
Labour and Conservative Party sources pointed to the fact that an official assessment of the government's impact on foreign prison policy estimated the cost at around £40,000 per prisoner per year, while Farage's figure was £25,000.
They also accused him of underestimating the cost of employing tens of thousands more police officers, because the Reform policy did not include the cost of increasing office space, vehicles or police equipment.
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