‘It drives me nuts!’ Boris Johnson admits to ‘moments of anger’ over small boat crossings as he suggests solution

Georgia Pearce

By Georgia Pearce


Published: 08/05/2025

- 20:28

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken out on Britain's migrant crisis as he suggested a "solution" to the increasing small boats crossings.

Speaking exclusively to GB News, Johnson told Patrick Christys: "We have boatloads of young men coming across the English Channel, and it drives me nuts, and it drives the British people nuts. And you know,

"In my moments of real anger and impatience about this, I think, why don't we kind of do something really crackers like Trump and put a 500 per cent tariff on all French cheese and wine until they stop the boats coming from from Calais?

"I think actually the French are making an effort, but they could do more. What you need is an instant method of sending them back. And whatever people say about it and people make fun of it, but the Rwanda plan was for the boat people, for the people coming across illegally by boat, and it was a very good plan."

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