Zia Yusuf has launched a furious tirade on the "invasion" of Britain by illegal migrants following a record number crossing on a single mega dinghy.
Speaking to GB News, the Reform UK Home Affairs spokesman made clear that under a Reform Government, not a "single unauthorised vessel will make it to our shores".
Across this weekend alone, more than 950 small boat migrants arrived in Dover, GB News exclusively revealed.
Amongst those 950 was a record-breaking mega dinghy, carrying 230 illegal migrants on a single vessel.
Reacting to the latest figures, Mr Yusuf told GB News that calling the issue a "small boats crisis" is now an "obsolete term".
He said: "The invasion of Britain continues and calling it a small boats crisis, even that's an obsolete term now.
"Even the term mega dinghy is something of an oxymoron, isn't it? The boats are getting bigger, records are being broken.
"It was only last week that you reported 165, which is already a new record. So these numbers are extraordinary, but well north of 200,000 people turning up on our beaches illegally.
"That is way more, way more than the number of men that stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. This is an invasion by any sensible definition of the term."
Detailing Reform's Operation Fortress, Mr Yusuf argued that the plan has now been "endorsed by the former Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott".
He argued: "He has endorsed our plan and said it can be done and it must be done.
"Lots of former members of the armed forces have also endorsed the plan and said, look, if we're not going to use the Navy to defend our own shores from an invasion, then what on earth are we ever going to use it for?
"We've also got to deport the well north of a million illegal migrants already in the country.
"The days of illegal migrants coming and getting a free ferry service, free hotels, free food at the taxpayer expense, which is what the Tories laid on for 14 years, and it's what Labour are continuing. Those days are going to end."
Mr Yusuf made clear: "They're going to get detained, they're going to get deported. You will see our Royal Navy in the Channel immediately maintaining a hard perimeter. Not a single unauthorised vessel will make it to our shores.
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"Those will be the orders issued to the First Sea Lord by Prime Minister Farage if Reform wins the next election. That's the only way we are going to stop this crisis."
Asked for his verdict on Labour's early release scheme, Mr Yusuf said the move is "reprehensible to the concept of justice".
He said: "I think justice is all but lost in this country now and the Reform solution to this problem is we need to dramatically increase prison capacity.
"This problem began under the Tories. They imported six million net new people in 14 years and built 455 net new prison places to cope.
"Labour are quite happy to allow serious criminals out because that's their ideology. Reform are going to bring justice back."
A Home Office spokesman told GB News: "This latest incident demonstrates the reckless and dangerous tactics employed by the criminal gangs facilitating these crossings, who continue to put lives at risk by cramming ever greater numbers of people onto unseaworthy vessels.
"We are making progress, with the number of small boat crossings down this year and the lowest number recorded for the month of July since 2020.
"But we must go further, which is why we have signed a payment-by-results deal with the French to put 40 per cent more boots on the ground on French beaches."
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