3 h. ago Chris Philp pelted with bottles and has knife pulled on him during trip to French migrant camp

The Conservative MP visited the camp near Dunkirk to speak to asylum seekers waiting to cross the English Channel

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8 h. ago Machete is pulled on shadow home sec Chris Philp and bottles thrown on visit to migrants in Dunkirk 'Jungle' camp

The Conservative MP began a trip to investigate illegal migration last night, travelling to northern France to visit a migrant camp near Dunkirk.

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9 h. ago Shadow Home secretary Chris Philp has 'curved machete' pulled on him during visit to French migrant camp

The Croydon South MP and his entourage were confronted by a man brandishing a knife near Calais

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53 h. ago Inside Paris's latest migrant camp: Families sleep on the floor beneath tarpaulin sheets outside French capital's city hall as they wait to be given housing

Nearly 200 migrants, mostly women, children and families, have been gathered on the square in front of the building since August 5  amid a protest organised by the Utopia56 association.

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5 d. ago BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty scolds Tory MP in heated migrant row as he stutters

BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty scolded Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp in a heated clash over Labour's new migrant deal with France, after he spent the day before on a boat in Dover

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7 d. ago Asylum seekers who work illegally should be on ‘next plane home’ – Badenoch

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch and shadow home secretary Chris Philp have proposed a crackdown on illegal working.

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7 d. ago Moment former Tory justice minister Chris Philp finds huge boat of illegal migrants crossing the Channel

Former Tory justice minister Chris Philp poked holes at Labour's new migrant returns deal after witnessing two 'massively packed' small boats entering UK waters on Wednesday.

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7 d. ago First Channel crossing migrants arrive in UK as returns deal comes into force

Pictures taken on Wednesday afternoon show a UK Border Force boat ferrying migrants including children into the Port of Dover.

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8 d. ago Minister denies migrant returns deal leaves open human rights loophole

Dame Angela Eagle denied the agreement with France would allow for spurious claims to be accepted.

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3 w. ago He decided to go 'paedophile hunting' then robbed innocent teenager with learning difficulties

Logan Edge was 17 when he pulled on a balaclava, armed himself with a knife, and attacked a vulnerable boy

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4 w. ago PM wants fewer jobless foreign nationals on benefits as first

The vast majority of people on universal credit are British and Irish nationals and those who live or work in the UK without immigration restrictions.

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4 w. ago The shining: my trip to the G7 summit with Emmanuel Macron | Emmanuel Carrère

Deeply unpopular in France, President Macron relishes the international stage, where he projects himself as the leader best placed to handle Trump. Seven years after our last encounter, I joined him as he prepared for battleNuuk, the capital of Greenland, is a small jumble of orange prefab buildings and low grey apartment blocks nestled on a stony outcrop on the edge of the ocean. There are no trees, but there’s a hill topped by the statue of Hans Egede, the Danish-Norwegian missionary who evangelised the world’s biggest island in the 18th century and which, as such, is threatened with removal by Inuit anti-colonialists. It was at his feet that I awaited the helicopters bringing back the Greenlandic prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron – referred to throughout this trip as “PR”, short for président de la république – from their excursion on the ice. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago The shining: my trip to the G7 horror show with Emmanuel Macron | Emmanuel Carrère

Deeply unpopular in France, President Macron relishes the international stage, where he projects himself as the leader best placed to handle Trump. Seven years after our last encounter, I joined him as he prepared for battleNuuk, the capital of Greenland, is a small jumble of orange prefab buildings and low grey apartment blocks nestled on a stony outcrop on the edge of the ocean. There are no trees, but there’s a hill topped by the statue of Hans Egede, the Danish-Norwegian missionary who evangelised the world’s biggest island in the 18th century and which, as such, is threatened with removal by Inuit anti-colonialists. It was at his feet that I awaited the helicopters bringing back the Greenlandic prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron – referred to throughout this trip as “PR”, short for président de la république – from their excursion on the ice. Continue reading...

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last month Boy, 15, told police 'all I did was protect myself' after stabbing Harvey Willgoose to death at school, court hears

Describing the incident during the school lunch break on February 3, the boy said: 'Without thinking and instinctively I pulled out the knife I had in my pocket and thrust it towards Harvey (pictured).'

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