Former Royal Navy commander warns Reform over ‘performative’ small boats plan as Britain’s fleet devastated

Former Royal Navy commander warns Reform over ‘performative’ small boats plan as Britain’s fleet devastated  GB News

We spoke to retired Navy Commander Tom Sharpe, who spent 27 years in the Royal Navy and is now the defence columnist for the Daily Telegraph.

Nigel Farage’s plan for navy to return small boat migrants ‘illegal’, says France  thetimes.com

Nigel Farage's plan to use the Royal Navy to transport migrants on the the English Channel to France or Belgium has been described as Reform UK's "latest gimmick"

Retired Royal Navy commander Tom Sharpe said military warships would not be best used for ‘ferrying people around’

Nigel Farage says he would use the military in the Channel but there are questions about whether the plan would work The Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, whose summer has been dominated by the Guardian’s disclosure of a £5m undeclared gift and his connections with a fraudster, emerged on Monday to claim that his party w

Reform UK insists using Navy to stop migrant boats would be legal.

Critics are already tearing apart Reform's plans to deploy the Navy to intercept migrants in the Channel

Experts say Nigel Farage’s plan would only increase death and violence at the border – after the party promised the ‘largest military operation in the Channel since WWII’

Britain's Reform U.K. party vowed that if elected it would use the Royal Navy to turn back small boats bringing migrants across from France and Belgium.

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REFORM has vowed to use the Navy to stop small boats and make British borders “impenetrable” – as Channel crossings continue to spiral under Andy Burnham. More than 14,000 migrants have crossed the Channel so far this year as the recent heatwaves trigger a stampede, with gormless French cops watching on as loaded dingh

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Reform wants to launch 'largest military operation in the English Channel since World War Two' to stop small boats  lbc.co.uk

The party says it would send the Royal Navy into the Channel to intercept all migrant boats and return them to France or Belgium under a plan called 'Operation Fortress'

Zia Yusuf said the party would launch 'the largest military operation in the English Channel since WW2'