MAPPED: The five Green-voting areas where a Reform Government could open migrant detention centres

Five more areas are open to risk from Reform UK’s plan to open migrant detention centres following the Green Party’s success in the local election last week.

The People’s Channel has mapped out the areas set to be home to migrants under Nigel Farage’s latest plan, after we mapped out the areas where Green MPs sit last week.

Reform UK’s spokesman for home affairs, Zia Yusuf, said Green-controlled areas would be prioritised due to what he described as the Green Party’s support for "open borders".

Mr Yusuf said last week: "Given the Green Party advocates for open borders and for an infinite number of undocumented men to come here, we will prioritise Green constituencies and Green-controlled councils to locate these detention centres.

"This is the fairest approach to ensuring democratic consent for all aspects of our mass deportation programme."

With the success of the Greens at the local elections on Thursday, more areas are set to house some of the 200,000 migrants who have made the crossing to the UK since 2018.

Reform also plans to implement the Mass Deportation Detention Act, which would see the people housed within the detention centres unable to leave the site before being deported two weeks later.

The act would grant the Home Secretary powers to stop councils from opposing the opening of detention centres.

Where would the new detention centres be located?

Norwich District Council

Norwich City Council was a surprise victory ground for the Greens as they managed to wrestle control from Labour for the first time since the council was set up in 1974.

They won five seats from Labour to get their councillor count up to 21 and gain outright control in the district.

Speaking after the win, Green Councillor Lucy Galvin said: "It's amazing, we've worked so hard for so many years - it's a deep-rooted majority, this."

"We've built and built over the years on hard work; it's built on people liking Green councillors and what they do in the community."

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Waltham Forest 

London saw the turn of three new Green-controlled areas, and Waltham Forest was a landslide win for the party.

The Greens took more seats than both Labour and the Conservatives combined, as they continued to take advantage of the damaging display across the country for both parties.

Labour had held control of the borough council for over a decade before Zack Polanski bulldozed through the election.

The party gained all 31 seats in one election cycle, having held none in 2022.

Hackney 

Hackney saw the first-ever Green Party mayor elected in Zoë Garbett, and they also gained overall control of the borough council, winning 42 of the 57 seats available.

After the win, Mr Polanski said: "I said that the Green Party were going to replace Labour. That’s exactly what we did in Gorton & Denton, it’s what we’ve done in Hackney, and we’re seeing that right across the country.

"In fact, in almost all of our seats, right across the country, whether they’re target or non-target, the Green party vote share is rising.”

Ms Garbett spoke following her win to say: "It’s not old politics … versus new parties. This is about a system of fear versus a movement of hope."

Lewisham 

Just a few hours after the Green Party’s first mayor was elected, they doubled their tally, as Labour suffered catastrophic losses.

Liam Shrivastava became the Greens’ second mayor as they gained 40 seats to take control of the borough.

Labour has held the seat since 1971 and occupied every single seat at the last election.

Mr Polanski backed up his earlier comments, saying that the Greens were “replacing” Labour, leaving the area vulnerable to migrant detention centres, should Reform follow through on their plan, if elected.

Hastings District Council

The final area where the Greens took control last week was Hastings, the seaside town, which saw the Greens take control of a hard-fought area that had not seen a party majority since 2021.

The left-wing party now holds 19 of the 32 seats, with Reform coming in second ahead of the Conservatives.

Council leader Glenn Haffenden said: "To get a majority today, I don't even know how to actually even explain that in words."

Highlighting the number of women elected in the area, Julia Hilton, East Sussex county councillor, told the BBC: "There's a really powerful female voice coming from Hastings to influence East Sussex County Council."

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