If you want a dissection of whether the £10bn cost of Reform UK's new deportation policy is an underestimate, the analysis that follows is going to disappoint.

Likewise, if you are here to hear chapter and verse about the unacknowledged difficulties in striking international migrant returns agreements - which are at the heart of Nigel Farage's latest plan - or a piece that dwells on how he seemed to hand over questions of substance and detail to a colleague, again, prepare to be let down.

Like a magician's prestige, if you laser focus on the policy specifics of Tuesday's Farage small boat plan - outlined in a vast hangar outside Oxford, striking for its scale and echo - you risk misunderstanding the real trick, and Reform's objective for the day.

Politics latest: Farage told to apo

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