Nigel Farage snapped back at Baroness Dianne Hayter on GB News today after she defended the one-in, one-out migrant returns deal, saying “we are still losers”.
The GB News host tore into the policy, insisting the scheme does nothing to reduce numbers.
Nigel also blasted the amount of money handed to France to deal with the crisis, pointing out Britain has given Paris around £800 million since 2014, while small boat crossings have continued to soar.
Discussing the deal, former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng said: “One in, one out. I mean, that got tied up in the courts on day one.”
Nigel Farage blasted the Baroness for saying she thinks the deal will work
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Baroness Dianne Hayter argued: “We’re trying it out, and I think it will work.”
Which made Nigel snap back: “One in, one out. One in, one out means if one person comes to the country and then goes back, another one comes in, it’s still plus one, whichever way you cut it.
“As a way of working with the French to make sure, it’s not working very well, is it? One in, one out we’re still the losers.”
Kwasi Kwarteng said: “What we said was that it would go to the courts and there would be a problem and that’s exactly what happened.”
Nigel added: “We’ve given the French, as I understand it, about £800million since 2014.
“And our viewers are very angry that the French don’t do more. But the French say it’s our fault. I have a funny feeling the French are right, in a way.”
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Chairman of Migration Watch UK, Alp Mehmet, said: “We are a huge magnet for a lot of people.
“But the other problem is that the moment anyone says ‘asylum’, we pretty much accept their word for it even though they haven’t got anything to prove who they are, where they’re from, or what their intentions are. That is wrong. That is dangerous.”
GB News recently revealed that the number of migrants who have crossed the Channel illegally this year has now passed 34,000.
The latest milestone will come as a major blow to the Labour Government, with the total now just over 2,000 short of the number of migrants who arrived in the whole of last year.
The number of migrants who have crossed the Channel illegally this year has now passed 34,000
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GB NEWSSince the weekend, British and French authorities have handled a fresh surge of small boat activity.
Over Saturday and Sunday, just under 1,300 migrants made the illegal journey.
That total included 125 people on a single boat on Saturday, the largest number ever recorded on one migrant vessel in the English Channel.
In the first three days of this week, GB News has learned that around 700 more migrants crossed from France.