Nigel Farage confirms talks with senior French figures on small boat crisis as ‘attitudes are beginning to change’

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Nigel Farage rips into £1BILLION French failure and vows to end crossings 'within fortnight' as PM.

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Nigel Farage ripped into France's £1billion failure as he vowed to end illegal crossings "within a fortnight" of becoming Prime Minister.Setting out the party's ambitious "Operation Fortress", Mr Farage and Zia Yusuf unveiled plans to deploy the Royal Navy into the English Channel to stop migrant boats and return them to France or Belgium.Since Andy Burnham became Prime Minister a fortnight ago, Labour has watched more than 2,000 migrants illegally cross Britain's borders - despite spending £1billion on a French deal in a bid to crack down on people smuggling gangs."The Australians faced all of these problems many years ago," the Reform chief declared."They tried offshore processing, they tried a number of things, and in the end what worked was towing the boats back to Indonesia.

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And since then, hardly a boat has landed in Australia."I am entirely confident that under a Reform Government, within a fortnight, there would be no more boats.

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Nigel Farage confirms talks with senior French figures on small boat crisis as ‘attitudes are beginning to change'.

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Nigel Farage has confirmed talks with senior French figures on the small boat crisis, suggesting "attitudes are beginning to change".

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The Reform UK leader was speaking at a press conference where he outlined 'Operation Fortress', his plan to end illegal crossings of the English Channel which will come into force if his party wins the next General Election.Answering a question from GB News, Mr Farage said French officials were shifting their thinking on the migrant crisis to a position of mutual benefit with Britain.

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"Have we had talks with some senior French political figures about this?

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Attitudes towards this are starting to change", he said.

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