France rejects Nigel Farage plan to end migrant crisis and defends pocketing £1.4bn from taxpayers

France rejects Nigel Farage plan to end migrant crisis and defends pocketing £1.4bn from taxpayers  GB News

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’

The party says under its plan it would override French objections to return migrants to France.

"Nigel Farage broke his cover to face a Q&A session with journalists after being unusually quiet - but his effort to get on the front foot may not land as he hoped it would"

The Reform UK leader insisted ‘Operation Fortress’, a plan to transport migrants back to France or Belgium, would comply with international law

The hard-right Reform UK party unveiled plans on Monday for, if it wins power, “the largest military operation” in the Channel “since World War II” to stop migrants crossing on small boats.

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.

Nigel Farage's Reform UK party has vowed to deploy the Royal Navy to the English Channel to prevent illegal migrants from reaching British shores.

Britain and France signed a new three-year deal in April to stop irregular migrants making the risky Channel journeys, with London paying Paris up to €766 million in return for boosted law enforcement of the issue.

Reform UK would use Navy to stop small boats in the Channel  ITVX

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

Retired commander says policy lacks substance as party accused of trying to distract from Nigel Farage’s scandals UK politics live – latest updates A Reform UK proposal to use the military to stop small boats bringing migrants to the UK from France lacks substance, a former Royal Navy officer has said, suggesting the

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'