Reform UK plan to return asylum seekers using navy ‘dangerous in practice’

Nigel Farage's party says 'Operation Fortress' would stop migrants 'invading', but experts slam proposal as unrealistic.

France has hit out at a Reform UK plan to return migrant boats using the Navy, saying the proposals would violate its sovereignty and breach international law.

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

It comes after the party said it would override French objections to return migrants to France.

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’

Reform UK proposes military-led operation to stop asylum seekers  Reuters

LONDON, Aug 3 - Britain's right-wing Reform UK party said on Monday that if elected, it would stop asylum seekers with what it called the largest military operation in the Channel since World War Two, as it faces falling popularity and questions over its funding.