Sir Keir Starmer has blamed Nigel Farage for the rise in illegal Channel crossings on what he described as “Farage boats”.

At the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, the Prime Minister claimed the UK’s migration crisis was down to the Reform leader’s campaign to leave the European Union in 2016.

He claimed leaving migrant return deals with 27 EU countries had caused the surge in small boat crossings since the UK left the bloc in 2020. New Feature

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Starmer told GB News : “I would gently point out to Nigel Farage and others that before we left the EU, we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU.

“He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats coming across t

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