Ant Middleton questions Portsmouth council after motion to ban migrant landings rejected: ‘Whose side are you on?’

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Ant Middleton questions Portsmouth council after motion to ban migrant landings rejected: ‘Whose side are you on?'.

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Ant Middleton has accused Portsmouth City Council of being "completely out of touch" after councillors rejected a motion that would have barred the city from being used as a landing site for small boat migrants rescued in the English Channel.

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Speaking to GB News, the former SAS officer questioned whether the authority was prioritising those who had broken into Britain over locals' concerns.Tensions have boiled over across the south coast of England in the past weeks, with protestors assembling at sites where the RNLI deposited migrants before they could be processed and dispersed around the country.

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Reform councillor George Madgwick had lodged the proposal, writing that the coastal city was "not a suitable disembarkation point" for rescued migrants and "must not be permitted to become one".

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say However, councillors voted 24 to 13 to reject the motion yesterday.

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