Lee Anderson, MP for Ashfield for Reform UK, has spoken in Parliament since his re-election on conservative values. He’s touched on energy generation, border security, and healthcare.
In particular he’s challenged the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper on the potential for cooperation with France and further European nations to return migrants to their home states.
When I was in the migrant camps in northern France last year, the migrants told me and some of my colleagues that one deterrent that would stop them coming would be if they were turned back in the channel or sent back the same day. We saw the Border Force agency take a boatload back just last week. Will the Home Secretary now, with that advice, grow a political backbone and order the Border Force to send the boats back the same day?
His question today drew support for such cooperation by Cooper. She referenced an incident last week whereby Border Force agents returned a boat full of migrants into the hands of authorities on the French coast.
However, she did not confirm it would be a Labour government policy to deal with illegal migration on the same day it occurs. It was suggested it could still be stopped before it occurs on the French coast to begin with.
