{"id":734468,"date":"2026-08-11T11:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734468\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:04:09","slug":"nigel-farage-hits-back-at-jeremy-clarkson-over-small-boats-plan-claim-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734468\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage hits back at Jeremy Clarkson over small boats plan claim | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigel Farage has responded to Jeremy Clarkson\u2019s claim that using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/royal-navy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Navy<\/a> ships to stop Channel migrant crossings is \u201cimpossible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Writing for The Times, the Clarkson\u2019s Farm star condemned the logistics and effectiveness of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/reform-uk-navy-small-boat-channel-farage-b3026478.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reform UK leader\u2019s controversial plan, dubbed \u201cOperation Fortress\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr Clarkson also said that in his own research, he had not found any evidence to suggest that Mr Farage has ever driven a boat. \u201cHow, in the name of all that\u2019s holy, does double-breasted Nige think it would be possible for a large warship to come alongside a much smaller dinghy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Responding to Mr Clarkson\u2019s comments during a press conference on Monday (10 August), Mr Farage said that he has in fact \u201crun boats since the mid 1980s\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage has responded to Jeremy Clarkson\u2019s claim that using Royal Navy ships to stop Channel migrant crossings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[40018,59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-734468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-file-photo","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}