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Chris Philp has revealed how he confronted French police after they stood and did nothing to stop migrants boarding dinghies for England.

He drew sharp criticism from the Government and French authorities over the visit, which saw him publish footage showing dozens of migrants boarding dinghies.

The footage also appears to show two French law enforcement officers telling him they had orders not to intervene.

Mr Philp writes: “What I saw was extraordinary.”

He describes vivid scenes of “young men pushing women off the boats and back into the water, and the French police standing idly by doing absolutely nothing”.

Britain pays France hundreds of millions of pounds as part of a deal intended to see officers on the other side of the Channel intercept migrants before they cross.

He writes: “We keep handing over the cash, and they keep paying lip service to the agreement we have with them.”

His latest intervention comes after a week of chaos at sea, despite Prime Minister Andy Burnham claiming the plan to tackle the crisis was “working”.

Speaking earlier this week Mr Burnham said that overall crossings were down “so that does suggest that the plan is working.”

There has also been more shocking news of migration turmoil on the continent, after tens of thousands crossed into Ceuta in North Africa.

Ceuta’s regional government president Juan Jesus Vivas said 60,000 people entered from Morocco during the border crisis. Around half are thought to have returned to Morocco.

But Mr Philp warned that if those migrants can access the European mainland, “there is nothing to stop them coming straight to Calais and trying to get a boat across the Channel”.

Mr Philp added his party’s policy was to “leave the European Convention on Human Rights, enabling all illegal immigrants to be deported within a week of arrival – with no asylum claim, no human rights claim and no court hearing”.

The British Government has offered support to Spain to deal with the unfolding situation.