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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Christopher McKeon

Charity rowing crew mistaken for Channel migrants by Norfolk MP

The ROW4MND crew was mistaken for illegal immigrants by an Independent MP as they attempted to row from Land’s End to John O’Groats. (Mike Newman/ROW4MND) - (PA Media)

A charity rowing crew was contacted by the coastguard near Great Yarmouth after the local MP mistook them for “illegal migrants”.

Rupert Lowe, elected as a Reform UK MP but now sitting as an Independent, posted a picture on social media on Thursday night showing a boat near some wind turbines off the Norfolk coast.

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