French insist plan to use Navy to tow back small boats is illegal

The diplomatic row was sparked hours after party leader Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf, its home affairs spokesman, unveiled 'Operation Fortress' at a press conference on Monday.

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

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. The proposal – which experts and other political parties promptly rubbished – comes days after tens of thousands of migrants enter

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"

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’

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

Nigel Farage said his party would send the military to the Channel to intercept and return dinghies carrying migrants to France The Reform leader, Nigel Farage, whose summer has been dominated by the Guardian’s disclosure of a £5m undeclared donation and his connections with a fraudster, emerged on Monday to claim that

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

'Violation of our sovereignty': France hits back at Reform's plan to use Royal Navy to stop small boat crossings  lbc.co.uk

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

Reform UK would use Navy to stop small boats in the Channel  itv.com

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.

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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 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