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Migrants rescued from Channel, PM shares platform with Sadiq Khan

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4 June 2016

9:00 AM

4 June 2016

9:00 AM

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Two British men were charged with immigration offences after the rescue by night of 18 Albanian migrants, two of them children, from an inflatable boat off Dymchurch, Kent. ‘We don’t want the English Channel turning into the Mediterranean with fleets of small boats coming over,’ said Chris Grayling, the Leader of the House of Commons and a campaigner for Britain to leave the EU.

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