Nish Kumar

This would total about 600,000 people in five years.

It almost feels pointless to nitpick over the cost of this when nobody believes that this is a workable policy.

It's just dog whistle at xenophobic anti-immigrant rhetoric.

It's also deeply strange as a policy, like this sort of psychotic obsession with immigrants.

There's more details that came out and sort of all of them are bad.

So if return agreements aren't agreed to, this is one of the policies they're suggesting, visas will stop being issued to that country.

Now, part of the problem here in the kind of intervening countries

two to three years, however long we are between now and a general election, is that Labour is allowing reform to set the agenda when it comes to immigration.

So Labour is already threatening to cut visas.

Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, said that cutting visas was on the table for countries that do not play ball.

So this is the concerning thing.

Now, other reform policies are just purely almost copy and pasted from...

previous Trump manifestos.

So there are visa bans proposed for Pakistan, Somalia, Eritrea, Syria, Afghanistan, and Sudan.

Most of those countries are majority Muslim.

So again, he's establishing a very clear picture of who the reform party

believes is deserving of coming to this country.

And it is once again sort of a Trumpian playbook.

And as we always say with these kind of things, when centre-left or centre-right governments attempt to head this kind of rhetoric off by diluting it or imitating it in any way,

It doesn't actually solve the problem.