Reform UK’s grand plans to deport foreign criminals from British prisons to other countries already seems to be falling apart after Estonia ruled out any deal with the UK.
On Monday, Nigel Farage announced Reform would deport foreign criminals in UK prisons back to their country of origin.
The headline-grabbing centrepiece of the policy is that if countries refuse to take the criminals in questions back, they will instead be sent to another nation.
Farage confirmed one nation being considered is El Salvador, which has notoriously hellish prisons.
He said: “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.”
The Reform leader said his party had already held discussions with El Salvador and that party chairman Lee Anderson would be heading up a trip to the country later this year for more talks.
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Farage also mentioned Lithuania and Estonia as potential other options for where the UK could send some of the 10,000 foreign nationals in British prisons.
But just hours after Farage suggested the possibility of working with Estonia on this, the nation ruled out any deal.
Speaking to Metro, a spokesperson for the Estonian government said they are not “onsidering any additional prison rental cooperation agreements with other governments.”