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“Because when I was in Calais, the police, the army, the security services told us every single young male that was in the camps in Calais will at some stage get to our shores, be put in a hotel and then they’ll be able to go through the asylum process and eventually claim asylum. It’s absolute nonsense.

“Starmer said he would smash the gangs, it gets worse and worse. And that spineless lot over there, those cowards over there haven’t got the backbone or the political will to sort this out. It can be sorted out in a matter of weeks.”

Research by the House of Commons Library found 22,476 crossing attempts were stopped last year, down from 23,923 in 2021, 33,000 in 2022 and 26,000 in 2023.

It comes after Reform’s new home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf said the UK is being “invaded” by migrants as he pitched Reform’s mass deportation programme as the biggest in UK history.

Under a Reform government, the party would set up the unit to “track down, detain and deport” people in the country illegally, aiming for up to 288,000 people each year.

Reform has said it would expect to deport more than 600,000 in its first term in government.