Joint Anglo-French patrol boats could be a solution to the canal’s migrant crisis

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When asked by Conservative MP Craig McKinlay if she had offered the UK’s French police, border forces and “probably troops” to patrol French beaches, she replied: “I can rest the mind of a proper gentleman, I did just that.”

But a source said, “They’re not keen on that.”

The joint patrols have been backed by former Border Force commanders and Tory MPs as a potential solution by showing migrants they cannot reach the UK where they will be intercepted.

Voter reaction escalated

There is nothing to prevent under maritime law from proceeding, with officers serving on each other’s ships, or boats acting as a combined force with the right to enter each other’s waters, said Tony Smith, the former director general of the Border Force.

So far the French have been reluctant because their interpretation of naval law is that they can only approach boats if they are in distress. But he said it would be a workable solution if she could convince the French to do so.

Concerned Conservative MPs have warned Ms Patel that the government needs to speed up its new immigration plans including offshore centers and a new UK to deal with migrants across the Channel to counter the growing backlash of voters over an apparent “loss of control” at the border.

Sir Edward Lee, the Conservative MP for Gainsborough, said it was clear we had “lost control”, urging Ms Patel to declare the canal migrant crisis a national emergency so she could activate powers to bypass human rights law and put migrants in it. Safe housing.

“If you tell the most desperate economic migrants in the world that we will provide free border service, taxi service across the canal, we will never deport you, we will put you in a hotel for as long as you want, is it any wonder? More and more will come?” he said.

A large number of rejected asylum seekers

His comments came as government figures revealed that less than three per cent of rejected asylum seekers were expelled from the UK in the year to March 2021, down from 40 per cent a decade earlier.

Home Office data showed that only 1,019 failed asylum seekers were expelled from the UK out of 39,510 who did not have the right to stay and should have been turned away. This compares to more than 10,500 of the 24,700 that were removed a decade ago.

There are still more than 50,000 people in the UK despite their asylum applications having failed, or they have fled in the middle of the process or after their application has been rejected.

Alp Mehmet, head of the Migration Watch think-tank, said: “The very large number of rejected asylum seekers who remain here is a hallmark of the weak and ineffective approach.

“Our system is in disarray and potentially leaves us in grave danger. Unacceptable and rejected asylum seekers must be removed quickly, or else the costly chaos will not only continue, but will only get worse.”

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