Ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe donates £1,000 to charity rowers after mistaking them for small boat migrants
He wrote on Thursday: 'Dinghies coming into Great Yarmouth, RIGHT NOW. Authorities alerted, and I am urgently chasing.
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'If these are illegal migrants, I will be using every tool at my disposal to ensure these individuals are deported.'
The crew were reported to the coastguard, who identified them as Row4MND, a team rowing from Land's End to John O'Groats in a campaign hoping to raise millions for motor neurone disease.
Correcting himself yesterday, now-independent MP Mr Lowe wrote: 'Good news. False alarm!
'As a well done to the crew, I'll donate £1,000 to their charity — raising money for MND.
"Keep going, and watch out for any real illegal migrants.'
Defending his initial concerns, he continued: 'We received a huge number of urgent complaints from constituents.
"I make no apologies over being vigilant for my constituents. It's a national crisis.
'No mass deportations for the charity rowers, but we definitely need it for the illegal migrants.'
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