Reform UK plan to return asylum seekers using navy ‘dangerous in practice’
- A plan put forward by Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party to deploy the navy to intercept and return asylum seekers arriving by boat has triggered a dispute with France.
- Reform leader Nigel Farage, who is under political pressure at home over a series of financial scandals and faces a by-election in just more than a week, characterised the mission dubbed “Operation Fortress” not as pushbacks but as “rescue and return”.
- He argued that, per its humanitarian nature, the measure would not breach international law, as stated by the French Ministry of the Interior.
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- A plan put forward by Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party to deploy the navy to intercept and return asylum seekers arriving by boat has triggered a dispute with France.
- Reform leader Nigel Farage, who is under political pressure at home over a series of financial scandals and faces a by-election in just more than a week, characterised the mission dubbed “Operation Fortress” not as pushbacks but as “rescue and return”.
- He argued that, per its humanitarian nature, the measure would not breach international law, as stated by the French Ministry of the Interior.
Sources: Al Jazeera