Javid has faced calls to deploy Royal Navy vessels after he declared the surge in people attempting to cross the channel by boat a “major incident” on Friday. It’s time to stop the rot by sending in the Royal Navy. “Border Force officials are trained to protect borders rather more than the Royal Navy,” Elphicke told Sky News. Caroline Nokes, speaks with Border Force officers and the HM Coastguard in Dover on 29 December 2018. Ingrid Parrot, the spokeswoman for the French maritime prefecture for the English Channel, told the Today programme: “Before 2018, we didn’t have smugglers.

Source: The Guardian December 29, 2018 16:07 UTC