Nigel Farage’s latest immigration plan contains a proposal that deserves to be taken seriously. Reform UK’s ‘Operation Restoring Justice’ promises mass deportations, detention camps, and the withdrawal from international treaties. Those elements will raise both legal and moral challenges. But another part of the package is something that deserves attention and credit: a scheme to pay £2,500 to people who agree to leave Britain voluntarily.

To some, the idea will look like bribery. Why should taxpayers reward people who have broken the rules? That is the instinctive reaction of many voters and the line taken by some politicians. Yet in policy terms, the idea is a good one. Removing people against their will is enormously expensive and politically fraught. A single forced deportation can co

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