Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist

Reform UK says it’s planning to run five migrant returns flights per day as part of its ambition to deport people who arrive in the UK illegally.

It says this and other measures in the plan will cost £10bn over five years but that money would be saved by not housing asylum seekers in hotels.

There’s not a huge amount of publicly available information about the cost of migrant return flights.

A recent Home Office assessment, external – which looked at the economic impact of the previous government’s Illegal Migration Bill – estimated that it would cost £22,000 per person being returned to a third country.

It said that this cost “includes their removal flight as well as the contract for resource to monitor and transport individuals from detention to any legal court sittings, from detention to the flight for removal, and onboard the flight to the recipient safe third country”.

We haven’t seen the full detail of Reform’s plan yet but the party has indicated people would be returned to their home countries and that third countries would also be considered.

In the first year of the current government, 66 chartered returns flights were recorded by the Home Office, external, up from 63 in the same period the year before.

Thomas Copeland
BBC Verify Live journalist

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is speaking about his party’s plans to tackle illegal immigration and our fact-check team is listening to what he has to say and will verify any claims he makes.

With four MPs, Reform UK is a small force in the Commons, but polling suggests its popularity has grown significantly.

As is typical for high-profile political speeches, some of the contents has already been trailed in the media.

In this case, Farage has written in the Daily Telegraph about his plans, external if his party wins power at the next general election.

Here are three policies we are now expecting to hear more about in today’s speech:

• A legal obligation on the UK home secretary to remove people who arrive illegally
• Banning migrants who enter the UK illegally from ever being able to claim asylum
• Leaving the the European Convention on Human Rights, repealing the Human Rights Act and disapplying three other international treaties

Labour say the plans lack substance on delivery and the Conservatives argue that Reform UK are recycling their ideas.

• Read more: Nigel Farage says illegal migration is a ‘scourge’

Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor

This morning the BBC Verifyteam is following-up on yesterday’s double Israeli strike on a hospital insouthern Gaza that reportedly killed at least 20 people, including fivejournalists.

Israel’s Prime Minister,Benjamin Netanyahu has described Monday’s attack as a “tragic mishap”.We’ll explain what happened based on material we’ve verified.

Our fact-check team will beacross a speech by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage this morning where he isexpected to outline his party’s plans to tackle small boats crossings. We’lllook initially at the background to Reform’s plans and then update you hereduring and after the speech.

Elsewhere we’re seeingreports of an attack on an oil refinery in Russian-occupied Crimea and will begathering and verifying material to report on what we know.

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