We will send back foreign criminals, vow Tories

FOREIGNERS convicted of a crime in the UK should be deported to restore confidence in the borders and end the prison crisis, the Tories say.

- By Michael Knowles and Jonathan Walker

The Conservatives have vowed to lower the threshold for removal to nearly "any criminal conviction".

Foreign crooks will also be barred from making asylum claims or seeking humanitarian protection.

The Tories, setting out their plan to restore control of the borders, said: "Foreign criminals should be deported and never allowed to return.

"We will therefore lower the criminal threshold for automatic deportation to any criminal conviction, with exceptions only for the most trivial penalties such as parking or minor speeding offences.