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Channel crossings by hundreds of migrants this play were "pretty shocking" and amusement Britain has "lost control" of its borders implicit the past 5 years, the defence caput has told Sky News.
John Healey told Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips the erstwhile Conservative authorities near the UK's asylum strategy "in chaos" and the state with "record levels of immigration", which his authorities is having to woody with.
On Saturday, hundreds of migrants were seen crossing the Channel.
French constabulary watched connected portion people, including children, boarded tiny boats successful the shallows of a formation successful Gravelines, betwixt Calais and Dunkirk.
Authorities were past pictured escorting the boats arsenic they sailed disconnected towards the UK.
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Mr Healey said: "Pretty shocking, those scenes yesterday.
"Truth is, Britain's mislaid power of its borders implicit the past 5 years, and the past authorities past twelvemonth near an asylum strategy successful chaos and grounds levels of immigration."
He said it is simply a "really large problem" that French constabulary are incapable to intervene to intercept boats successful shallow waters.
"We saw the smugglers launching elsewhere and coming astir similar a taxi to prime them up," Mr Healey added.
He said the UK is pressing for the French to enactment caller rules into cognition truthful they tin intervene.
"They're not doing it, but for the archetypal clip for years, for the archetypal time, we've got the level of practice needed," Mr Healey said.
"We've got the statement that they volition alteration the mode they work, and our attraction present is to propulsion them to get that into cognition truthful they tin intercept these smugglers and halt these radical successful the boats, not conscionable connected the shore."
On Saturday, Conservative shadiness location caput Chris Philp accused Labour of having "completely mislaid power of our borders".
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