UK politics: Tories’ Philp rejects French claim that shots fired from naval boat near him were training exercise – as it happened

Shadow minister says there was no warning and ‘it looked and sounded like deliberate intimidation’ Conservative MP accuses French navy of firing shots near him in Channel It is not just the Russians firing on Brits in the English Channel ; Chris Philp , the shadow home secretary, has accused a French warship of firing “warning shots” near him while he was on a boat in the Channel monitoring small boat crossings. In a post on social media , he says: On the channel today monitoring illegal migrant crossings … as I was being interviewed by the BBC just now a French warship approached close and fi

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