Andy Burnham dismisses using Royal Navy to block migrant boats
Andy Burnham has suggested that using the Royal Navy to stop migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats is not a "serious" idea. Reform UK MP for Newark, Robert Jenrick, told the Prime Minister in the House of Commons yesterday to “declare a national security emergency, because we have a gaping hole in our borders right now”. He also called for the Government to “send the Royal Navy in to the Channel and shut down the entire asylum farce once and for all”.
TL;DR
- Andy Burnham criticized Robert Jenrick's proposal to use the Royal Navy to stop migrant boats as not serious.
- Jenrick called for a national security emergency and for the Royal Navy to shut down asylum claims in the Channel.
- Crossings have decreased, with 20,935 arrivals so far this year, down 42% from the same period last year.
- Jenrick suggested deploying the Royal Marines and using lethal force to return migrants to France.
- Labour's Bridget Phillipson called the proposal 'disgusting and illegal'.
- Falklands War veteran Major-General Julian Thompson controversially stated he would 'shoot' migrant boats.