BBC on French beach as police slash migrant 'taxi-boat' heading to UK
Friday, 4 July 2025 () Images of French police destroying a boat in the English Channel are "a significant moment and we welcome this action", the UK prime minister's spokesman says.
Nigel Farage says Reform UK "very much enjoyed" Sir Keir Starmer's remarks on immigration and an 'island of migrants', which critics have likened to Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech in 1968. Reform's party leader urges the prime minister to declare the situation in the English Channel as a national security emergency. Starmer replies that the government's borders bill will allow law enforcement to take action "before crimes are committed", adding it is "extraordinary" that Farage "of all people, voted against it". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
French police will receive £175 million pounds of UK taxpayers' money to reduce the number of dangerous channel crossings by illegal migrants. But according to the latest record-breaking figures, it..
Friday, 4 July 2025 ()
Images of French police destroying a boat in the English Channel are "a significant moment and we welcome this action", the UK prime minister's spokesman says.
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