Tory MP Sarah Wollaston said it was “simply not credible” that a Brexit would mean the end of the treaty.
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But Mr Paterson, a senior member of the Britain Out campaign, said: “This is a bi-lateral agreement between Britain and France”.
Invoking the prospect of refugee camps in the Garden of England – and suggesting that it would expose the country to security threats – is a calculated move.
“The French would love to pull out of the arrangement”.
This, Cameron implied, could lead to migrant camps, such as the now infamous “Jungle” in Calais, appearing in southern England. The people who want to take a different path, they have to start answering some questions about what it would look like if we are not in that organisation and not party to those rules.
Under the 2003 ‘Le Touquet treaty between the United Kingdom and France, Britain conducts border controls on the French side of the Channel Tunnel and other cross-Channel routes.
In France, there have been calls, most notably by Calais Mayor Natacha Bouchart, to repeal the treaty on the grounds that it only serves British interests and that it causes the camps to spring up in France instead.
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“If you’re found in a concealed vehicle, you’re a clandestine, once you set foot on British soil you can claim asylum whereas if you’re found in a vehicle on French soil you can’t claim asylum in Britain, Mr Whiteman told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme”.
Recent opinion polls indicate that more Britons want to leave than want to stay and experts say attitudes have hardened in reaction to Europe’s refugee crisis.
“Clearly Number 10 is in a blind panic over the failing renegotiation”.
“If those controls weren’t in place then there would be nothing to stop thousands of people crossing the Channel overnight and arriving in Kent and claiming asylum”. “He is genuinely torn but I hope he will change his mind because he is one of the few who understands that if we stay in, Britain will be in a weaker position than ever before”.
In a boost to Mr Cameron, one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest advisers suggested the former prime minister would have backed his proposed deal for a new relationship with Brussels.
“This is a perfectly feasible scenario that could happen”. Particularly since the main European Union immigration policy at the moment is to encourage in millions of people each year from the most impoverished and radicalised parts of the world and only then work out that majority shouldn’t be here. “If we are forced to abandon that, there will be real problems”.
“We now have these juxtaposed controls with France”.
Those campaigning to leave said the latest warning had been choreographed to instil fear in voters.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron is facing a revolt from among his Conservatives for encouraging lawmakers to ignore their local party’s views on an upcoming European Union membership referendum. Cubitt declined to say if there had been a threat from the French to rescind the agreement if Britain leaves the EU.
