(National-UAE) Refugee charities that work with migrants in northern France are “just as bad as people smugglers” who ferry people across the English Channel in search of new lives, the new Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson has said.
The MP, who was promoted by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, accused the northern France-based organisations of “fuelling” the desire of people to cross the Channel in small boats.
One of the charities, Care4Calais, denied Mr Anderson’s allegations.
Mr Anderson, speaking to the Sunday Telegraph, said that on a recent trip to Calais, he saw “hundreds of young men” being helped by workers at the British Care4Calais charity.
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