(LBC) Terror suspects “waltz in on small boats,” Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick has claimed.
Dozens of terror suspects have crossed the Channel in small boats, according to the former immigration minister Robert Jenrick.
The Tory leadership candidate said individuals associated with the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda were among those who had arrived and said they were refugees, the Telegraph reports.
His comments indicate the first time such information has been publicly revealed and follow Sir Keir Starmer ditching the Rwanda plan, which would have seen small boat arrivals sent to the African nation.
In addition, Mr Jenrick said at least 1,000 people who arrived on small boats up until the end of 2022, when he was immigration minister, were “connected to criminality of all kinds.”
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