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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Hamish Morrison

Reform MSPs in 'racist and dishonest' bid to 'exploit' Spanish migration crisis

People walk on a beach as they attempt to cross from the Moroccan northern town of Fnideq to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo) (Image: AP)

REFORM UK have been accused of a “racist, dishonest and deliberately dehumanising” attempt to exploit the fatal migration crisis unfolding in Spanish Africa.

Mark Simpson, an MSP for the north east of Scotland, called for a state of emergency to be declared in Britain and said the army and navy should be “pre-emptively” deployed to England’s south coast as immigrants crossed en masse into a Spanish enclave in Morocco.

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