DAILY MAIL: Gordon Brown has promised to deport 4,000 foreign prisoners this year.
The Prime Minister vowed to make a vast increase on the 2,700 sent home last year.
There are currently more than 12,000 foreign convicts in Britain's overcrowded prison system - 15 per cent of the 80,000-strong jail population.
Mr Brown said: 'We are going to take a far tougher line. I want a message to go out - if you come here you work and learn our language. If you commit a crime you will be deported. You play by the rules or you face the consequences.'
He told the Sun: 'I'm not prepared to tolerate a situation where we have people breaking the rules in our country when we cannot act.' I'll kick out 4,000 foreign prisoners, vows Brown (more) By James Slack
Mark Alexander
