By GB News (Politics) | Created at 2024-12-04 07:40:48 | Updated at 2024-12-04 18:30:55
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Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that a new migrant crisis is looming, as Brexit-bashing French Prime Minister Michel Barnier is set to face a no-confidence vote today.
France’s interior minister Bruno Retailleau said that his department could face a funding shortfall of €751million (£624million) in 2025.
He said this could result in the government having insufficient funds to pay the police who patrol the Channel in northern France.
The French Gendarmes and Police Nationale are crucial to stopping migrants from boarding boats set for Britain.
As Michel Barnier's government faces collapse, Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that the UK could be facing a new migrant crisis
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Retailleau said: “If we do not have a text, including a budget text, for the Ministry of the Interior, it is €751million less if we renew the 2024 budget for 2025.
“This means problems paying the police, no new gendarmeries, no new police stations.”
The warning comes ahead of a no-confidence vote today on Barnier's government, which is on the brink of collapse after it used article 49.3 of the French constitution to push through a social security budget bill without a vote.
If the vote goes through, it would mark the first time a French government has fallen through such a measure since 1962.
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