THE GUARDIAN: Peter Kyle says bolstered Border Force is tackling small boat crossings, as second person is deported ‘under one in, one out’ scheme
One of Keir Starmer’s senior ministers has dismissed suggestions by Donald Trump that the British government call out the military to help deal with irregular migration.
Peter Kyle, the UK business secretary, brushed off the comments, which the US president made on Thursday at the end of his two-day state visit.
Trump told a press conference at Chequers: “You have people coming in and I told the prime minister I would stop it, and it doesn’t matter if you call out the military, it doesn’t matter what means you use.”
Kyle said on Friday, however, the government did not need to call on the armed forces to deal with small boat crossings, hours after the UK successfully deported a second asylum seeker to France under the “one-in, one-out” pilot scheme.
He told BBC Breakfast: “What [Trump] suggested was that the military are used, but we have the UK Border Force. It is now established and has been reinforced and bolstered, and has new powers under this government. » | Kiran Stacey, Policy editor | Friday, September 19, 2025
