Ahead of the start of the party’s conference, Reform UK’s MPs have been repeating their claim that migrants who are intercepted while crossing the English Channel can just be taken back to France. It’s part of the party’s four point plan to “stop the boats”.
Both the party’s leader Nigel Farage and party chairman Richard Tice have claimed that the UK is legally entitled to do this. But BBC Verify has found no evidence that this is the case. Earlier this month, Richard Tice tweeted: “Starmer needs to explain why he does not have leadership & courage to use 1982 UN Convention of Law at Sea to pick up & take back”.
On 19 September, Nigel Farage told BBC Radio Kent that part of Reform’s plan for migrants crossing the Channel in small boats would be to “take them back to France”. In June, he said on Question Time: “We’ll pick them up in the Channel and take them back” to France. He said he would use the Royal Marines to do this, if necessary.
But it is not clear how Reform could do this without breaching international law.
Source: BBC
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