Looks like BoJo needs to severely improve relations with the EU or Farage will be breathing down his neck about migrants! Don't forget, due to Brexit, the UK is no longer part of the EU's Dublin Agreement so can no longer repatriate migrants to the first safe country they arrive in.
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Nigel Farage scents opportunity in UK’s migrant boat quandary
Government attempts to control the growing numbers of small boats crossing the Channel have so far failed
..For months, the godfather of Brexit has been filming on the shores of Essex and Kent, decrying the small boats en route to the British Isles and lambasting the government. In the very same places where the Euroscepticism of his UK Independence party first took hold, Farage has sniffed another opportunity for a political backlash — just as he did in the run-up to the 2016 referendum.
...Tougher laws may act as a deterrent, but the solution to this problem lies chiefly in diplomacy, namely by improving the UK’s shortsighted European policy. By taking a bellicose stance towards the EU on resolving the trading mess in Northern Ireland, the UK has worsened relations with the bloc. Paris, therefore, has no reason to help London on an issue that is causing domestic strife.
Ministers are braced for the situation to get worse. One cabinet minister says: “We voted to leave the EU to control our borders. Here is a clear example of it not happening. Unless we get a grip soon, our voters will be unforgiving.”
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https://www.ft.com/content/4de3b1bc-...6-3f7fc5c43dba