A charity rowing crew raising money for for motor neurone disease was contacted by the coastguard near Great Yarmouth after a local MP mistook them for “illegal migrants”.

Rupert Lowe, elected as a Reform UK MP but now sitting as an Independent, posted a picture on social media on Thursday night showing a boat near some wind turbines off the Norfolk coast.

He wrote: “Dinghies coming into Great Yarmouth, RIGHT NOW.

“Authorities alerted, and I am urgently chasing. If these are illegal migrants, I will be using every tool at my disposal to ensure these individuals are deported.

“Enough is enough. Britain needs mass deportations. NOW.”

But the vessel pictured was an ocean rowing boat crewed by ROW4MND , a team of four who are attempting to row from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise

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