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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Archie Bland

Forty-three times the Conservatives tried (and failed) to tackle Channel crossings

A group of people are brought in to Dover, Kent, onboard a Border Force vessel after a small boat incident in the Channel this week.
A group of people are brought in to Dover, Kent, onboard a Border Force vessel after a small boat incident in the Channel this week. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

On Tuesday, Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman will announce a new plan to deal with the small boats crisis. But from using the navy to threatening asylum seekers with detention in Moldova to sending jetskis on patrol, the Conservatives have not been short of schemes to deter those who plan to cross the Channel since the issue came to the top of the agenda in the last weeks of 2018. Here’s a guide to some of them.

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