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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Lucy Jackson

French government blasts Reform over 'illegal' Channel military operation plans

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage during a press conference in Westminster on Monday (Image: Jonathan Brady / PA)

THE French government has responded after Reform UK announced plans to launch “the largest military operation in the English Channel since World War Two” to stop small boat arrivals from France.

A Farage-led Reform UK government would send the Royal Navy into the channel to intercept all migrant boats there and return them to France or Belgium under a plan called “Operation Fortress”, the party said earlier on Monday.

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