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Reform UK chief: Drowning migrants should "suffer consequences" (boating activities) - C C - Apr 24, 2024
Reform UK chief suggests migrants drowning in the Channel should 'suffer the consequences'
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ben-habib-migrants-channel-rescue-drowning_uk_66295123e4b005d7bf0c518e
INTRO: Ben Habib, the deputy leader of Reform UK, has suggested there are circumstances when people crossing the English Channel in small boats should be left to drown.
In comments on TalkTV that shocked presenter Julia Hartley-Brewer, Habib said migrants should “suffer the consequences of their actions” if they scupper their vessels and refuse new dinghies.
Hartley-Brewer said his position was “not a policy that a civilised country should endorse”.
The statement came as five more people died in the Channel on Tuesday. The migrants, including a seven-year-old girl, died when their boat got stuck on a sandbank off the coast of Pas-de-Calais in northern France... (MORE - details)