I had knife pulled on me in migrant camp, says Conservative shadow minister
In the video, the two men are recounting the incident while walking along the side of a road at which point objects can be seen being thrown at them. Mr Garner-Purkis says "they are throwing bottles at us" and Philp says: "Right, we've got to go."
Philp has said he has been visiting the north coast of France to "find out more about what's happening on the ground with the illegal migration crisis".The number of people trying to get to the UK by crossing the English Channel in small boats has been increasing for around eight years.Since 2018, when figures were first recorded, more than 170,000 people have arrived in small boats.In 2022, 45,755 made the journey, in 2024 it was 37,000 and as of 11 August this year, 27,029 people have arrived in the UK.In a bid to reduce numbers, the Labour government has taken steps to "smash the gangs" that organise crossings including spending £100m to fund 300 National Crime Agency officers to tackle people-smugglers.It has also reached a 'one-in, one-out' agreement to send some arrivals back to France and in exchange, the UK will take in asylum seekers in France who have not tried to make the crossing.The Conservatives have criticised the government for scrapping their Rwanda plan which aimed to send arrivals to the East African country where they would have had their asylum applications processed.Earlier this week, Philp said: "Labour tore up our deterrents before they were even in place, and the results are there in black and white."When I went to the Channel to see Labour's France returns deal in action, the truth was obvious. Within half an hour of arriving off the French coast, I watched two packed dinghies being escorted into UK waters. Every illegal migrant should be removed immediately upon arrival."
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