A Nigel Farage-led government would send the Royal Navy into the English Channel to intercept all migrant boats there and return them to France or Belgium under a plan called “Operation Fortress”. “Reform UK will respond by launching the largest military operation in the English Channel since World War Two. “Nigel Farage will order His Majesty’s Royal Navy to ensure that not a single unauthorised vessel crossing the English Channel makes it to the shores of the United Kingdom. A total of 162 people died in the English Channel between 2018 and 2025, according to the University of Oxford’s Migration Observatory. The party proposes to set up a joint military command with units from the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, RAF and British Army as well as a surveillance command to track incoming boats.