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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kiran Stacey Political correspondent

Labour launches ads in Reform-style branding to boast about deportations

Reform Facebook Farage United Kingdom
Light blue advert saying 'Breaking news' with silhouettes of lines of people and insert of Home Office logo, under which it reads: 'Labour hits 5-year high in migrant removals'
A Facebook advert paid for by Yorkshire and the Humber Labour party, which goes on to say Labour has removed ‘a record 16,400 illegal migrants since taking power, including 2,580 foreign criminals’. Photograph: Facebook/Meta

Labour has launched a series of adverts with Reform-style branding and messaging as the party seeks to combat the rise of the rightwing party.

The Facebook adverts include a series from a group called UK Migration Updates boasting about how many people the government has deported. The adverts do not display the Labour logo and are in a similar shade of blue to that used by Reform UK.

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