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If the promise is to deport “all” foreign criminals into prisons in “countries like El Salvador”, there are many questions. 1. What is the list of countries that would take the prisoners? 2. What talks have been held with these countries and what’s the result? 3. What is the cost? 4. How is the cost met? 5. What domestic legal powers will be needed? 6. When would it commence? 7. How quickly would prisons be free of the 10k+ foreign criminals? 8. What talks have been held with countries like Poland and Ireland, whose nationals take up many spaces? 9. Zia said prisoners sent to El Salvador would not be allowed back to Britain and suggested they would be El Salvador’s problem at the end of their sentence - will El Salvador accept this? 10. How much would it cost Britain to make sure El Salvador prisons “adhere to British standards”? 11. Why did Nigel Farage say El Salvador was not a “serious” option last year? 12. Why did Reform propose letting everyone out of women’s prisons and then abandon the policy two weeks ago? To be clear, we have been calling on the Government to rent cells overseas for some time. So we do not disagree about the principle of sending prisoners elsewhere. But unless and until elementary questions are answered, this will remain a tweet and not a policy.