Children left to drown in the Channel – is this where Britain’s drift to the right is taking us? | John Harris
Criticism of the comments made by Ben Habib of Reform UK died down very quickly. And that’s terrifying
In the hourly deluge of outrage and nonsense that passes for the national conversation, it was only another fleeting moment. But last Tuesday, as the TalkTV presenter Julia Hartley-Brewer talked to Ben Habib – the Reform UK party’s “co-deputy leader” and its candidate in the recent Wellingborough byelection – about so-called small boats crossing the Channel, their conversation highlighted where the noise around that issue seems to be going: into places so inhuman and ugly that even a populist true believer such as Hartley-Brewer feels a pang of horror.
Their 11-minute chat took place the day after five people, including a four-year-old girl, had been killed trying to get to the English coastline from a beach near Boulogne, on an inflatable dinghy carrying 112 people. Reform’s belief, Habib said, was that the UK authorities should “use force” to stop such vessels entering our territorial waters, “and require them to turn round”.
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