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GB News has obtained an audio recording that seems to confirm the French authorities are giving migrants life jackets
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Yes, and in so doing that, it raises obvious questions about whether the French are now enabling these small boat crossings
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Joining us in the studio is our very own Home and Security Editor, Mark White. Mark, tell us more
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Well, this is an audio recording that we've obtained. And it's basically a conversation between a border force vessel, the Typhoon, and also a French patrol boat
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And what it seems to confirm is that the French are handing out life jackets to the migrants
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probably at sea when they intervene to try to get these migrants on board these boats to return to France
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to get on board the French ship and return to French waters
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Of course, the migrants very rarely do that, but it seems that they actually handing out these life jackets to the migrants that don have them Let just take a listen to that audio recording of the radio transmissions
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We can arrange to return your life jacket once in a while
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Can you confirm how many persons are on board, Heather? 34. Thank you very much for our life jackets
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All the life jackets are ours. It's also life jackets we had kept before with the order of the forces
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Yeah, that's all understood. I'll make contact once we complete the rescue to returning life jackets
