UK Border Force could strike over Channel pushback plan

Staff may embark on industrial action over Priti Patel's morally reprehensible' ploy to turn back refugees

Border Force officials could strike over Priti Patel's morally reprehensible" plans to turn back dinghies in the Channel, a union has said.

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), which represents the vast majority of Border Force staff who would implement the pushbacks", has joined forces with the refugee charity Care4Calais to seek a judicial review of the policy, a tactic campaigners warn could put lives at risk.