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Lights, camera, and a new low: there are better ways to deal with UK migration than Deportation TV

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Images show men being taken off a bus and up the stairway of a charter jet to be deported from the UK .

It's a show-not-tell strategy in response to Reform ’s rise in the polls and it has a whiff of panic about it.

Forcing those whose asylum applications have been rejected or who have overstayed their visas on to planes has never been the most effective way to return people and never will be.

Voluntary returns are far more effective, and the government should know this.