UK politics latest: Reform to announce plans for ICE-style UK border agency

Elsewhere, mainstream schools will receive direct funding to support children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) as part of a £4bn package to make the system more inclusive.

As part of a major Government overhaul to be announced on Monday, there will be investment in targeted interventions such as small group language work and helping staff introduce adaptive teaching styles.

Around £1.6bn over three years will be provided to early years, schools and colleges through an “inclusive mainstream fund”.

Sir Keir Starmer said the reforms would help young people make the most of their talents.

At a breakfast meeting with school leaders and charities in Downing Street, the prime minister said: “Too many children are being held back by a system that does not work for them.”

The Prime Minister referred to his own brother Nick, who died on Boxing Day 2024, had learning difficulties and was “cast aside”, adding that his “life was very different to mine” because the system did not work for him.

“I’m not saying there haven’t been huge improvements since then, but the same sentiment still applies to children who don’t get the opportunities and chances they need to go as far as their talents and abilities can take them,” Sir Keir said.

Commenting on Mr Yusuf’s upcoming speech, Labor leader Anna Turley said: “Reform does not seek to serve the British people, it seeks to divide our country.

“Plans to deport people who follow the rules, work hard and make their lives here – our friends, neighbors and colleagues – are a direct attack on settled families and, fundamentally, non-British people.”

He added: “The British people are right to expect our borders to be tightly controlled, with clear rules on who can come here and swift action against those who have no right to be here, as well as actions that will make our country safe, and that’s what Labor is delivering.”

Amnesty International UK accused Reform England of scapegoating immigrants to “justify mass deportations and expanded police surveillance”

Reform said plans for a new deportation agency would have the capacity to detain 24,000 migrants at a time and deport up to 288,000 people a year, and also promised to operate five deportation flights every day.

Ms Yusuf is expected to say: “For decades, as the fabric of our society has been under attack, the Conservatives and Labor have gone the other way.

“The social contract has not only been broken, it has been shattered. Under a reform government, Her Majesty’s Parliament will rule once again.

“We will secure our borders, leave the ECHR and deport those here unlawfully. My message to the British people is simple: I will secure our borders and make you feel safe.”