Fears France may reduce efforts to stop Channel boats if new government takes power
Migrant children picked up at sea attempting to cross the Channel are helped to disembark by Border Force officials in Dover Sir Keir Starmer would work with a French far-right government on Channel crossings if Marine le Pen’s National Rally takes power in Sunday’s snap elections
“France immediately becomes a more unpredictable player. The President is no longer able to lay down the line, as he has done in the past,” Lord Ricketts, also a former UK National Security Adviser under prime minister David Cameron, told“France puts quite a lot of effort into preventing migrants leaving – partly paid for by the UK, it’s true – so they could put less effort into preventing migrants from leaving. That could be a logical consequence.
“I’ve long argued we should have a better security pact with the EU on this issue. That would give us something really valuable that we don’t have now, which is that on joint operations the UK could lead. Now that is something that we lost.”Mr Bardella has said he will “stop migratory submersion” by “drastically reducing legal and illegal immigration” and “deporting foreign delinquents” if he becomes prime minister.
Christine Engrand, an RN MP in the Pas-de-Calais region, from where many asylum seekers take small boats across the Channel to Britain, called for an overhaul of the 2003“We need to review the Le Touquet Treaty,” Ms Engrand said. “We need to find a way to manage this that is better for both sides, reviewing the money you send and the money we use.”
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