France slams hard-right Reform UK party's plan to use navy to stop Channel migrants

France on Monday condemned a proposal by hard-right Reform UK party to launch, if it wins power, "the largest military operation" in the Channel "since World War II" to stop migrants crossing on small boats. The party's leader, Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, at a press conference unveiled a policy to deploy Britain's Royal Navy to return small boats to France. But the French interior ministry told AFP that the plan "would be a violation of French sovereignty as well as a violation of maritime law and international law". The proposal comes days after tens of thousands of migrants entered the...