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When it comes to migrants, Britain needs to be more French

17 December 2022

11:06 PM

17 December 2022

11:06 PM

Rishi Sunak’s fighting talk as he launched the latest Tory crackdown on illegal Channel migrants this week, with the dramatic words ‘Enough is enough’, ignores the question on many people’s lips: why doesn’t Britain send Channel migrants back to France? That, after all, is precisely what the French have been doing for years with migrants who cross into France from Italy at the border on the Riviera.

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