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Reform leader Nigel Farage says his plan to use the Navy to stop small boat crossings in the Channel would save lives and money. He insists his proposal to return people to France is lawful. Report by Johals. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00So Operation Fortress will be a combined military operation.
00:06It will save lives, it will help the French in fulfilling their job of stopping the boats,
00:13and it will save a huge amount of money.
00:17We are very confident that our policy of securely picking people up and safely taking
00:25them back to France, we are entirely confident that that falls within other conventions
00:32of international law, and you'll see that argued clearly in this document.
00:40And when you think about it, what is the Royal Navy for?
00:44If the Royal Navy is not there to protect this country from invasion, then frankly I can't
00:51see what its purpose is.
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