Dover MP refuses to back fellow Tories' ‘invading migrants’ rhetoric

Natalie Elphicke distances herself from letter to home secretary about Channel crossings

The Conservative MP for Dover has distanced herself from rhetoric used by fellow Tories in a letter to the home secretary, in which they referred to invading migrants" amid an increasingly fraught debate over the rise in Channel crossings.

A group of 23 Conservative MPs and two peers on Monday wrote to Priti Patel to demand stronger enforcement" efforts to combat a surge in illegal immigration" as the number of arrivals in small boats surpassed the 4,100 mark so far in 2020.