Hard-right Reform UK vows to use navy to stop small boats if it wins power

The hard-right Reform UK party unveiled plans on Monday for, if it wins power, “the largest military operation” in the Channel “since World War II” to stop migrants crossing on small boats.

“What happened in Ceuta over the weekend shows you just how serious this situation is,” Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage

, who leads the anti-immigration Reform, told a press conference unveiling the new policy in a 28-page document.

In the latest, parliament’s standards commissioner said on Monday he had last week opened an investigation into an alleged “failure to declare” a financial interest by the party’s deputy leader Richard Tice.