The number of serious offenders deported from Britain has dropped by almost 40 per cent in the past four years.
Now Home Secretary Priti Patel is to mount a crackdown on foreign criminals whose lawyers use loopholes in the legal system to block their removal.
Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by The Mail on Sunday show the number of deportation orders served has dropped by nearly 2,000 – from 5,218 in 2015 to 3,225 last year.
