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Tory Edward Leigh bizarrely demands Britain 'takes back Calais' to stop migrants

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A top Tory MP claimed the UK should “take back” Calais from France to stop the surge in migrants crossing the Channel in rubber dinghies.

Sir Edward Leigh, 70, suggested Britain “should never have lost” the coastal town 462 years ago. The former minister, who chaired the powerful backbench Commons Public Accounts Committee, tweeted: "Problems with cross-Channel migrants? "We should never have lost Calais in 1558.

Why not take it back? "On second thoughts, cheaper to pay the French a few million to stop them on the beaches." More than 4,000 migrants have risked their lives crossing the world's busiest shipping lane to reach England so far this year.

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