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I Had Knife Pulled on Me in Migrant Camp, Says Conservative Shadow Minister
Chris Philp faced threats and violence during a visit to a large migrant camp amid a 47% rise in Channel crossings since last year, highlighting growing migration tensions.
- Chris Philp, Shadow Home Secretary, faced violence at a migrant camp in Calais, France, where he was threatened with a knife and pelted with bottles while trying to speak to migrants.
- Over 25,000 people have crossed the Channel from France this year, with numbers up 47% from last year and 69% higher than in 2023, according to analysis by PA News Agency.
- The Labour Government has committed to combatting illegal migration by funding the National Crime Agency with £100 million.
- Philp stated it was crucial for Parliament members to understand the situation on the ground, contrasting it with 'sanitized propaganda' from the government.
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British Politician Faces Machete Threat at French Migrant Camp.
PULSE POINTSWHAT HAPPENED: Britain’s Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Philp, was pelted with bottles and confronted with a “curved machete” during a visit to a migrant camp near Calais, France.WHO WAS INVOLVED: The Conservative (Tory) Party’s Chris Philp, Member of Parliament (MP) for Croydon South and Shadow Home Secretary, and migrants including an unnamed man wielding a machete.WHEN & WHERE: Tuesday evening to Wednesday afternoon, in the “New Jun…
He had gone to the north of France on Tuesday, August 12, to "inform himself of the situation on the ground" and to take stock of the crisis of illegal immigration. British MP Chris Philp was greeted by a machete in a migrant camp near Dunkirk.The Conservative parliamentarian said in an interview for GB News that he had experienced a "frightful" incident. "I visited the new jungle camp, where the migrants waiting to cross the Channel are settled…
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