Foreign lags jailed three times to be deported under Rishi Sunak’s crime crackdown
FOREIGN lags who are jailed three times will be automatically deported under Rishi Sunak's crime crackdown.
In a bid to slash offences and make Brits feel safer on the streets, the wannabe-PM vowed to double the number of foreign national offenders booted out of Britain.
Putting the boot in to the PM and his former Cabinet colleagues, he declared: "We are far too soft on foreigners who commit crime in our country."
But last night Team Truss slammed the move as a "desperate gimmick" and said it would do absolutely nothing to speed up deportations.
In a huge slab of red meat as he tries to win over members around the country, he vowed to boost deportations to more than 5,500 a year.
If he becomes PM, Mr Sunak said he would introduce a new 'three strikes and you're out' rule which will apply no matter how long their sentences are.
He will make offenders eligible to be booted out after serving six months in jail, down from 12 currently.
New prisons would have to be built to keep wrong-uns off the streets and boost places, he admitted.
The most prolific career criminals would receive an additional year on top of their sentence, with more being slapped with GPS tags too.
Tough talking Mr Sunak said last night: “I will cut crime by locking the most prolific offenders up, keeping them locked up, and building the prison space needed to do so.
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“Crime hits the least well-off hardest.
“Cracking down on foreign offenders and career criminals will dramatically cut crime across our country, making it a safer place for people to live."
However, last night former immigration minister Chris Philip hit out at the move - saying only by reigning in the ECHR would they make a difference.
Insiders said that Priti Patel had already made moves to tighten up the current laws - and said it would see the prison population boom and add to the costs for the taxpayer.
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He blasted: “This thin announcement is a desperate gimmick that contains no proposals that will actually double the number of deportations - it just adds to the number in the queue.
"What’s stopping us removing a number of murderers and rapists, let alone someone who stole a pack of crisps, are repeated meritless legal challenges."