“How would you physically get people off a Royal Navy boat?”

This is what Zia Youssef said today.He said, if the Alize Palace refuses, make no mistake, His Majesty's Royal Marines will disembark them safely on the very shore they left that morning.How would they disembark them?Physically, practically, what would happen if in this scenario France hasn't agreed?

Well, listen, we're not sending soldiers onto French beaches.Of course not.They're an ally.They're an NATO member.We're not threatening France.We're returning people safely to where they embarked after rescuing them at sea.

Sure.And I hear you.I'm just asking physically, practically, what would happen?

Well, I mean, then France would have to...I mean, if France did stop us, they would have to explain why it's refusing to accept people who've just departed.Sure.I'm not... involved in the operation of the Navy.But we anticipate cooperation from France.Our mission, again, I'll repeat, is humanitarian.

And if someone wants to oppose it, they need to explain why they oppose rescuing people at sea and returning them safely to the country that they just left.That will be on France to make a decision.Also, on another note, they'll either have to honor the agreement they've repeatedly signed up with Britain, and we've paid them up to a billion pounds, or explain why they're refusing to take people.when we're actually helping them out for free.

So let's imagine they do explain why they're not taking people.I come back to the question, how would you physically get people off a Royal Navy boat?

Well, you would dock them and take them up to the shore.