Ex-Australian PM issues stark migration warning to Britain: 'Be prepared to upset the French!'

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The former Prime Minister of Australia has warned the Labour Government that if they are "not prepared to upset the French", they are "not protecting their sovereignty".Speaking to GB News about Britain's surging migrant crisis, Tony Abbott declared that the UK must take small boat crossings into their own hands and "physically stop the boats".The former leader pointed to successive British Governments' failed promises over the past five or six years to end small boat arrivals, with efforts consistently blocked by legal challenges citing the ECHR.He said: "Now there is a way forward and that's to leave the ECHR, but for all sorts of reasons no Government has been prepared to take that step.

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But for that to happen, we need politicians who are prepared to take responsibility as opposed to saying one thing, and then when the going gets tough, hiding behind a judge, a commission, a bureaucrat or a...

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