Lee Anderson Frustrates GMB Presenters With Bizarre Defence Of Reform's Migration Plan

The Reform MP refused to engage with a rather crucial flaw in “Operation Fortress”.

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Lee Anderson clashed with Good Morning Britain presenters on Wednesday over the French backlash to Reform UK’s plan to tackle the small boats crisis.

Nigel Farage’s party announced they would use the Royal Navy to intercept the migrant vessels as part of “Operation Fortress” if they got into government.

Reform would supposedly then return the asylum seekers on board to where they came from in “the largest military operation in the English Channel since World War Two”.

But the French government said this week the right-wing party’s plan to turn back migrants crossing the English Channel would be a “violation” of their sovereignty, as well as a breach of maritime and international law.

However, Reform’s chairman Anderson........

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