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Reform's Home Affairs spokesperson Zia Yusuf says France would have no choice but to accept migrants returned by the Royal Navy after attempting to cross the Channel. He says the UK would still enter French waters even without French agreement. Report by Johals. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Let me be crystal clear.
00:01A reformed government will show unflinching resolve to ensure that people who set out
00:06from France to break into Britain go back to France.
00:11That is our policy, not a future negotiating position with the French government.
00:17What France gets to decide is how that happens.
00:20Now look, we would far rather disembark people in port, walk people down a gangway and hand
00:26them to the French authorities properly.
00:29That is more dignified and it is what we will negotiate for.
00:34And keep in mind, the official position of the French government is that they do not
00:39want these boats leaving their shores in the first place.
00:43Tory and Labour governments have paid them, as Nigel said, a billion pounds of British taxpayer
00:48money to stop the boats, ostensibly.
00:52Our military would, in fact, be helping them comply with the very agreements that they
00:57signed.
00:57might.
00:58But, if the Elysee Palace refuses, make no mistake, His Majesty's Royal Marines will disembark
01:05them safely on the very shore they left that morning.
01:09OK.
01:11Those are the only two options.
01:13There it is.
01:13Here we go.
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