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Zia Yusuf, Home Affairs Spokesperson for Reform UK, says his party would put the Royal Navy in the Channel in a bid to stop migrant crossings. His comments come after the Home Office recorded 781 arrivals in small boats across the Channel on Wednesday, the highest number on a single day so far in 2026. Report by Patelr. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well, we've just seen 1,000 in the last few days, the number accelerating again, and we've had north of
00:05210,000 people turn up on our beaches illegally over the last eight years.
00:11The majority of those came under the Tories, but under Labour now the number's over 80,000.
00:17So what we need to do is we need to put our navy in the channel.
00:20What Nigel would do as prime minister is give them orders to ensure not a single vessel makes it, not
00:25a single illegally, illegal vessel makes it to our shores.
00:30And in doing so, we would stop those boats from coming.
00:33But we also have to deport the north of a million, north of a million illegal migrants who are already
00:38in Britain.

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