Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party has vowed to deploy the Royal Navy to the English Channel to prevent illegal migrants from reaching British shores. Announcing what the party claims would be the largest military operation in the Channel since the end of the Second World War, Reform said that if given power, it would enact a naval blockade to make the waterway “impenetrable” to boat migrants and their people smuggler backers.
According to The Telegraph, “Operation Fortress” would see unauthorised boats detained by the Royal Navy, who would provide them with food and water before escorting them back to the French coastline. The party said that the recent scenes at the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, in which some 60,000 illegals flooded across its border with Morocco in just one day last week, demonstrated the urgency for Britain to take control of its borders.
