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Machete is pulled on shadow home sec Chris Philp and bottles thrown on visit to migrants in Dunkirk ‘Jungle' camp
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has said he had a 'curved machete' pulled on him and was 'pelted with bottles' whilst on a visit to Dunkirk's new 'Jungle camp'.
The Conservative MP began a trip to investigate illegal migration last night, travelling to northern France to visit a migrant camp near Dunkirk.
In updates posted to X, Philp said: 'Exiting the jungle 2 near Dunkirk where we had a machete pulled on us. Then got pelted with glass bottles.'
The MP for Croydon South spoke to police, locals and aid workers, noting a lack of French police on the beaches where illegal migrant boat launches are common.
The MP posted this morning: '5am and I'm walking along the beach which has seen many illegal migrant boat launches - including yesterday.
'I can't see any French police here either - why aren't they patrolling this launching point? It's negligent.'
Philps' encounter comes as Home Offices figures yesterday showed that over 50,000 migrants had arrived in the UK alone since Prime Minister Keir Starmer's landslide victory.
Speaking to GB News shortly after the incident, Philps said: 'I was talking to migrants there literally about ten or 15 minutes ago.
'First of all, as I was talking to some migrants, another one pulled out a curved machete and started brandishing it, at which point we left pretty quickly.
'And then as we were leaving, we got pelted with glass bottles.
'And as we drove off other bottles got thrown at the car.'
The MP for Croydon South spoke to police, locals and aid workers, noting a lack of French police on the beaches where illegal migrant boat launches are common
The so-called 'Dunkirk 'Jungle' camp' or 'Jungle 2' is a French refugee camp that is thought to have replaced, by size, the 'Jungle' camp in Calais which was notorious before it was closed in 2016.
