Robert Jenrick has called for asylum seekers to be housed in camps like “rudimentary prisons”, suggesting the Conservatives should go even further than Reform on the issue.
In an interview with the Spectator magazine, the shadow justice secretary also said he supported a “sustained period of net emigration,” which he agreed could be up to a decade, as “the country now needs breathing space after this period of mad migration”.
“My view is that mass uncontrolled migration has and is wrecking British culture and identity,” he said.
Speaking about proposals to house asylum seekers, he said arrivals “should be detained in camps'”.
“The facilities will need to be rudimentary prisons, not holiday camps. It’s not what Reform have suggested, which is cabins with a fence around them.”
His comments come ahead of Reform’s party conference in Birmingham, which is due to kick off on Friday.
The interview was published after Sir Keir Starmer said it would be a “profound mistake” to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which Jenrick has said he wants the UK to exit.
Jenrick also criticised the suggestion the ECHR should be replaced by a British Bill of Rights, saying “we will end up replacing activist judges in Strasbourg with activist judges in London.”
On Wednesday the Prime Minister ruled out leaving the treaty but said the Government would look at the interpretation of some provisions of the convention.
He told the Commons: “It would be a profound mistake to pull out of these instruments, because the first thing that would follow is every other country in the world that adheres to these instruments would pull out of all their agreements with this country.
“That would be catastrophic for dealing with the problem that we are dealing with.”
Ministers plan to tighten the use of Article 8 of the ECHR, the right to private and family life, in immigration cases in the UK.
Under plans unveiled in the immigration White Paper in May, the Home Office seeks to reduce the number of people claiming “exceptional circumstances” under Article 8 to stay in the UK
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