Reform UK’s Small Boat Policy “Won’t Make Us Safer” | Kevin Rowlands

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“We've got rising threats from Russia in the High North and the North Atlantic, and a war on the European continent, to divert attention and divert resources away from an already stretched armed forces into something that shouldn't really be their role. It’s not going to make us safer.” With Reform UK announcing they’d use the Royal Navy to deter small boat crossings in the Channel, RUSI's Kevin Rowlands says that the armed forces should be “prioritising” other threats from Russia and abroad. Kevin Rowlands was speaking to Seb Payne on The Times at One. Listen live every Monday to Thursday from 1pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.

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