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6,000 people could have their homes torn down as part of a £2.2bn project in which 1,266 council houses and 567 properties belonging to private homeowners could be repossessed in a mass compulsory purchase order in Birmingham. There are 6 SEZs in Birmingham, these are deregulated carve-outs with separate laws and regulations from the host country. Compulsory purchase orders apply to business, agricultural, and residential properties. In total there are 74 deregulated Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and 12 Freeports currently being installed in England, Scotland, and Wales, these were a Truss/Sunak initiative that rwere fully backed by Labour who were board members of Sunak’s nationwide SEZs/Freeports consortia. SEZs carve out extra-territorial jurisdictions, designated regions that can house a Freeport, airport, towns, entire cities, and rural areas under a ‘privately governed authority’. So, think of an SEZ as a room within a room, a state within a state, or even a party within a party. The UK post-Brexit is now like a Russian doll. That’s what Special Economic Zones are.