Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken out on Britain's migrant crisis as he suggested a "solution" to the increasing small boats crossings.Speaking exclusively to GB News, Johnson told Patrick Christys: "We have boatloads of young men coming across the English Channel, and it drives me nuts, and it drives the British people nuts. And you know,"In my moments of real anger and impatience about this, I think, why don't we kind of do something really crackers like Trump and put a 500 per cent tariff on all French cheese and wine until they stop the boats coming from from Calais?"I think actually the French are making an effort, but they could do more. What you need is an instant method of sending them back. And whatever people say about it and people make fun of it, but the Rwanda plan was for the boat people, for the people coming across illegally by boat, and it was a very good plan."WATCH ABOVE.
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00:00Today, probably, we have boatloads of young men coming across the English Channel.
00:04And it drives me nuts. And it drives the British people nuts.
00:07And, you know, in my moments of real, real anger and impatience about this,
00:15I think, why don't we kind of do something really crackers like Trump
00:20and put a 500% tariff on all French cheese and wine
00:25until they stop the boats coming from Calais?
00:28It wouldn't work. And I think, actually, the French are making an effort.
00:35I think they could do more.
00:38What you need is an instant method of sending them back.
00:47Or not just sending them back, but not even sending them back,
00:50sending them for processing somewhere else.
00:53And whatever people say about it and people make fun of it,
00:57you know, everybody's satirized, but the Rwanda plan was for the boat people,
01:02for the people coming across illegally by boat, was a very good plan.
01:06And, you know, it was, if we coupled that with getting out of the European conventional human rights,
01:17so we speed up these, we avoid these constant legal processes,
01:24and we had a really serious offshore processing system in Rwanda,
01:29I think you'd start fixing to...
01:30The interesting thing is that we just had to mention the Rwanda plan,
01:35if you remember back in 1922, and to say that it was coming,
01:41and lo and behold, the...
01:44Where are the boats coming from?
01:46Over there.
01:48Yeah.
01:49They started down there.
01:50They started to slow down.
01:52Yeah.
01:52And I think that is...
01:56It is a viable plan,
02:00and I think the British people are absolutely fed up to the back teeth of this stuff.
02:05And what it does, of course,
02:07the arrival of all these illegals
02:10undermines people's trust in the whole system.
02:14And what it does, of course,