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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
John Rentoul

Voices: Finally! Nigel Farage concedes that there’s no easy solution to the migrant question

Nigel Farage is like a chatbot trained on social media posts. “It’s perfectly simple,” they begin. “Send them back to France”, or “Detain them all and deport them.”

If it was so easy, why do these armchair gold commanders think that three prime ministers who knew that their survival depended on it have so far failed to stop the boats?

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