Farage denies Reform would let troops shoot small boats after Jenrick’s ‘lethal force’ claim

Jenrick had said Reform would deploy the Royal Marines to take boats back to France, and ‘if they need to use lethal force, then they’ll be able to do so’. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Nigel Farage has denied that a Reform UK government would authorise lethal force against small boat crossings in the Channel, hours after one of his MPs said the Royal Marines should be permitted to fire on the boats.

Farage overruled Robert Jenrick, a Reform UK MP who defected from the Conservatives, who had told TalkTV that the party would deploy the marines to take boats back to France.