Channel migrants: MPs criticise use of navy to tackle English Channel crossings

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Channel migrants: MPs criticise use of navy to tackle English Channel crossings

Mr Ellwood, who chairs the defence committee, said: “This tactic may on the face of it look popular, with 28,000 migrants now crossing every year – send in the navy to sort it out – but it is not the strategy that will solve the movement of migrants.” www.bbc.co.uk

Mr Ellwood, who chairs the defence committee, said: “This tactic may on the face of it look popular, with 28,000 migrants now crossing every year – send in the navy to sort it out – but it is not the strategy that will solve the movement of migrants.”

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