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Long-standing Tory Brexiteer MP Edward Leigh made the claim on Twitter, suggesting that the English and French return to the border arrangements of the late 16th century.
Calais was under English rule for 200 years until it was lost to France in 1558 under Mary I.
He tweeted: “Problem with cross-Channel migrants? We should never have lost Calais in 1588. Why not take it back?”
Leigh followed it up by writing: “On second thoughts, cheaper to pay the French a few million to stop (the migrants) on the beaches.”
Calais was under English rule for 200 years until it was lost to France in 1558 under Mary I.
He tweeted: “Problem with cross-Channel migrants? We should never have lost Calais in 1588. Why not take it back?”
Leigh followed it up by writing: “On second thoughts, cheaper to pay the French a few million to stop (the migrants) on the beaches.”
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