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"The overwhelming majority of Britons believe that the government should deploy the Royal Navy to stem the tide of the illegal boat migrant crisis in the English Channel, a poll has found.According to a survey from the More in Common polling firm, seven in ten voters, or 69 per cent, agreed that the Royal Navy should be dispatched to the English Channel to stop the migrant boats from France. In contrast, only 18 per cent opposed using the Navy to protect Britain’s maritime borders from illegal migration, the Times of London reported.This puts the public broadly in line with the position of Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party, which has advocated for using the Royal Navy if the French continue to fail to stop people smuggling networks operating on their beaches from sending illegals across the Channel.Under the previous Tory government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Britain agreed to pay France £478 million (€541 million) in 2023 to step up border protection and even construct a detention centre for the French. This came on top of other migration payoffs totalling over £300 million over the past decade.Despite this, the migrant crisis has only grown, with around 20,000 illegals crossing the English Channel during the first half of this year, an increase of over 50 per cent compared to last year."
