Express Politics6 Aug 2026
Reform pledge to imprison bosses using illegal migrants - plus 'Turkish barber tip line'
Reform UK will lay out the plans later today.
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Exclusive Interview: "Rising Star" Switches to Restore Britain — "I Want a Political Home That Respects Me"
Kieran Mishchuk, 19, who won his seat for Reform UK aged 18, tells Restore News why he made the switch and why he hasn't looked back.
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Troubling Evidence Of Corruption
The attacks continue as Restore Britain's popularity is causing panic at Reform
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Young Bob Assaulted By Muslim Gang
Prominent remigration activist Young Bob was assaulted and robbed in Whitechapel on Tuesday evening by a gang of muslims gathered for a debate outside a mosque.
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The Advance UK Merger Collapse: Ego, Entitlement, and the Fight for Britain's Future
Ben Habib's proposed merger with Restore Britain collapses after Rupert Lowe refuses to hand over the keys. The reaction from Advance UK's inner circle reveals more about their motivations than they intended.
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The Guardian Politics6 Aug 2026
Has the UK government’s strategy on small boat crossings been effective?
As the number of migrants crossing the Channel is down by 43%, have ministers cracked the problem? The headline figures show that small boats crossing the Channel are down by 43% compared with January to mid-July 2025 – from 21,690 last year to 12,469 over the same period this year. Since Andy Burnham came to power on 20 July, however, there has been a small increase on the same period last year. Between 20 July and 2 August 2025 1,962 people crossed the Channel in small boats. Over the same per
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The Guardian Politics3 Aug 2026
What chaos? Farage tries to distract with immigration plans – podcast
Nigel Farage has promised that Reform UK would call in the navy to tackle small boat Channel crossings. Will this familiar-sounding immigration policy distract from the party’s internal problems? Plus – as we learn more about Andy Burnham’s plans for devolution, is this the biggest rewiring of the UK state since the second world war? Read about Richard Tice being investigated by parliament’s standards watchdog here You can read Alexandra’s report on Andy Burnham’s trip to Dover here and about c
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BBC Politics3 Aug 2026
Reform UK would use Royal Navy to stop small boats
The party's home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf says it would be the "largest military operation in the English Channel since World War Two”.
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The Guardian Politics3 Aug 2026
Former navy officer criticises Reform plan to use military to stop small boats
Retired commander says policy lacks substance as party accused of trying to distract from Nigel Farage’s scandals UK politics live – latest updates A Reform UK proposal to use the military to stop small boats bringing migrants to the UK from France lacks substance, a former Royal Navy officer has said, suggesting the UK’s warships would be better used countering actual military threats. Reform’s political opponents have claimed its plans have more to do with distracting from the financial scan
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The Guardian Politics3 Aug 2026
Criticism of Reform UK’s pledge to use Navy to stop small boats – politics live
Labour say plan is a ‘desperate attempt to distract from sleaze’ while a retired commander says it ‘lacks substance’ The leader of Restore Britain, Rupert Lowe, told the Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, that if he was “prepared to work together around serious policies, serious reform and serious government, then so are we”. In a video posted on X on Sunday, Lowe said: I truly believe there could be sufficient common ground for our two movements to cooperate collectively, destroy the looming leftw
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Express Politics3 Aug 2026
Politics LIVE: Nigel Farage to reveal bombshell migration plan as Channel crossings surge
The Reform UK leader is giving a press conference this morning - follow live.
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Express Politics1 Aug 2026
Burnham's pledged to stop the small boats – but what about the really BIG ones?
OPINION - JUDY FINNIGAN: With hundreds of men, women and children crammed on board, the English Channel is more dangerous than ever
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Guido Fawkes30 Jul 2026
Four Migrants Die Attempting Channel Crossing
French emergency services report that four migrants have died while attempting to get across the Channel on small boats this morning. Three women died after having heart attacks near Dunkirk and a man died in a separate incident near Dannes. Boats are usually overloaded and often encounter difficulty. French authorities were criticised yesterday for failing…
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Express Politics28 Jul 2026
Watch as French throw life jackets to migrants during smugglers' 70-mile Channel crossing
And smugglers attempted a 70 mile crossing from Fecamp to Eastbourne, the longest Channel migrant crossing every attempted.
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Guido Fawkes28 Jul 2026
Far More Small Boat Migrants Arrive in Burnham’s First Week Than Starmer’s
Burnham has said the “plan is working” on small boats after ignoring them completely since taking office. How does his first week stack up? Burnham took office on 20 July 2026. His first seven days, 20 to 26 July, saw 881 small boat arrivals in 13 boats. Starmer took office on 5 July 2024. His…
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The Guardian Politics28 Jul 2026
Tories’ Philp accuses French navy of firing shots near him in Channel incident
Chris Philp says patrol vessel may have been trying to stop him highlighting the small boats crisis UK politics live – latest updates A Conservative MP has claimed a French warship fired warning shots near a boat he was on in the Channel in an attempt to stop him covering the small boats crisis. Chris Philp, who is his party’s home affairs spokesperson, was being interviewed by the BBC a couple of miles off Boulogne on Tuesday when the warship Flamant passed by. As it did so, a French navy off
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