Reform UK MP Lee Anderson launched a fierce attack on the Government's handling of the migrant crisis during a GB News appearance, demanding naval intervention in the Channel to turn boats back to France.
"It's about time we put the Navy in the Channel, turn these boats back and take them back to France," Lee declared, dismissing concerns about the current approach.
The MP expressed outrage at the £41,000 annual cost per asylum seeker, calculating that ten people in a boat would cost taxpayers £400,000.
"I do not want these people in my country, they should be sent straight back the same day," he stated.
Lee Anderson raged at the pair's PMQs clash
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Lee accused Sir Keir Starmer of "smashing records" rather than smashing the gangs, predicting "a day where 2,000 migrants come in one go."
His comments sparked a heated exchange with GB News Senior Political Commentator Nigel Nelson, who argued that "nobody has come up with an absolute way of stopping it, Reform hasn't."
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Nelson warned that deploying destroyers against small inflatables would result in drownings, stating: "If you start sending destroyers into the Channel for inflatables not much bigger than children's paddling pools, an awful lot of people will end up drowning."
Anderson rejected this concern, insisting that migrants know "once they are in that water, they are here in a four star hotel."
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When Nelson claimed France was "doing an awful lot" despite receiving £700m annually from Britain, Lee repeatedly interrupted with "No, no, no," maintaining that boats should simply be "sent back."
The confrontation at Prime Minister's Questions saw Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp trade fierce accusations over immigration failures.
Philp attacked Labour's record, saying he didn't know how Rayner had the "brass neck" to claim the government was getting illegal immigration under control.
He accused the government of prioritising "housing illegal immigrants over young people," citing Home Office suppliers offering above-market deals to landlords for small boat arrivals.
Lee Anderson unleashed a rant on GB News
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Rayner countered that immigration had increased fourfold under the previous Conservative government, creating a backlog that required 400 asylum hotels costing £1m daily.
She claimed Labour had reduced this to "just over 200 hundred hotels" in their first year whilst starting to build homes the Tories "failed" to deliver.
The exchanges grew increasingly hostile when Philp raised the case of a convicted Zimbabwean paedophile allowed to remain in Britain because deportation would threaten his human rights.
"What about the rights of children here to be protected?" Philp demanded, asking why the government sided "with foreign criminals and not the British public."
Rayner dismissed him as a "Johnny-come-lately who couldn't do anything when he was in office," prompting angry exchanges that required the Speaker to call for order.
She highlighted that Philp "was the man at the heart of the Home Office when immigration soared," adding that he "lost control of our borders" and spent "£700m of taxpayers money on persuading just four volunteers to be removed to Rwanda."
Lee later described the PMQs clash as an "embarrassment."
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