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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
John Rentoul

Voices: Starmer has to find a workable plan to ‘stop the boats’ or Farage will become prime minister

Nigel Farage’s plan for the mass deportation of asylum seekers is still unrealistic. His advisers have given it more thought than the previous plan, which was to pick up people on small boats and take them back to France.

That has been quietly dropped, now that Reform has thought through the implications of entering French waters and invading France. What, for example, would stop French boats from taking migrants from the quayside in France and returning them to Britain without our permission?

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