CHILLING THREAT. >> Reform plans for ICE-style 'deportation force' in the UK.

Byline: MIKEY SMITH US Political Editor in Washington DC

REFORM UK's Zia Yusuf last night threatened to tear up Britain's constitution to force through plans for a Donald Trump-style "deportation force".

Mr Yusuf, the party's home affairs spokesman, was in Washington DC to give a speech to the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think-tank, on "Saving Britain and Saving the West".

He is also understood to have met with MAGA politicians in Congress during his visit.

Among Yusuf 's proposals to "save Britain" would be deporting hundreds of thousands of people currently living legally in the UK.

The plan would be enforced by a "deportation force" inspired by ICE, the heavyhanded immigration squads Trump has been deploying across US cities. Yusuf insisted Reform's ICE squads would be well trained and professional.

But he said he was prepared to take extreme measures including abolishing the House of Lords if peers tried to block a Reform government pushing ahead with his hardline deportation plan.

He said during the event on Thursday: "If the House of Lords get in the way we'll just sack the House of Lords. I hope it won't come to that." Asked if he thought Reform UK's plans would provoke a "civil war" in Britain, he said he did not.

Yusuf added: "We won't be pushed off course by a bunch of activists and their media partners.

"Do I foresee lots of protests, lots of people walking out of the Civil Service? Unfortunately I expect that."

Mr Yusuf went on to air a string of Trump-style conspiracy theories about "foreign money" being pumped into the UK to fund opposition to Reform's hard-right agenda - even claiming, without providing any evidence, that there was a foreign interference campaign going on in the upcoming Makerfield by-election.

He said: "There's these highly organised people turning up with wellprinted placards. Not for a particular party, but attacking our party. Where's the money coming from?" Trump made the same unfounded claim about anti-ICE protests in Minnesota earlier this year.

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