RT-Engels: 30-07-2026,
Crossings have continued despite London and Paris signing a deal worth £661 million to combat illegal migration
The French police have admitted that they have orders to let illegal migrants get on small boats and head across the English Channel for the UK, according to a video released by British Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp.
In a video posted on X on Wednesday, Philp speaks to members of the French police on a beach in northern France and confronts them about a group of migrants piling onto a small boat just a few yards away.
“Our order is to let them go like that… We just have to say to them, ‘don’t do that, it’s dangerous’,” one officer says.
Just leaving this here for you @ShabanaMahmood….. https://t.co/n4HtXdLL9m pic.twitter.com/otYzGwhaah
— Chris Philp MP (@CPhilpOfficial) July 29, 2026
Speaking to Channel 5’s Jeremy Vine on Thursday, Philp stressed that the French officers could have “easily stopped the migrants” by puncturing the rubber dinghy without putting anyone at risk, as the water was “knee deep.”
“Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, is paying the French government over half a billion pounds, £660 million of our money to the French government to stop these boats,” he said.
The £661 million ($889 million) migration agreement, inked in April, is intended to boost French enforcement action,