WATCH: Martin Daubney left emotional as flotilla of boats commemorating the Dunkirk evacuation disrupted

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Martin Daubney was left "close to tears" after a flotilla of boats commemorating the Dunkirk evacuation was forced to divert to make way for a migrant vessel crossing the English Channel.The emotional incident occurred as 66 "Little Ships" were sailing from Ramsgate to Dunkirk on Wednesday to mark the 85th anniversary of Operation Dynamo.READ THE FULL STORY HERE

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00:00Well, indeed, and before we even get to the figures, something else I think that we'll have

00:04our audience incandescent is news that the flotilla of small boats marking the Dunkirk

00:15anniversary, 66 small boats as part of that Operation Dynamo commemoration were forced

00:24to divert, we're told, today because of this, the Border Force vessels escorting, I should say,

00:36these small boats over from France. So that flotilla had to hold up basically and wait for

00:44that migrant boat to be escorted past them before they could continue on their journey to the other

00:52side of France, of course, where they are going to be for the 85th anniversary of the Dunkirk

00:59evacuation. So understandably, I'm sure there will be a lot of people very, very angry at that

01:08commemoration being disrupted in this way. But this is the daily routine of what we're seeing

01:15coming across the English Channel any time the weather improves. And today, we've got a three

01:22day window that began this morning, allowing these migrant boats to come across in very significant

01:30numbers. You're looking at exclusive video that we've obtained shot on behalf of the people smugglers

01:37and being pumped out around the world to tell other migrants to come to chance their arm to get across

01:44the English Channel. And you can see from the video, thousands of people making their way towards

01:52the coast, towards the dunes to meet up with the people smugglers and the boats to take them across

01:59the channel. And as you see... Mark, I'm trying my very, very best to keep my composure. I heard that

02:05story in real time. You broke that story to me in real time about the Dunkirk flotilla. I'm still,

02:10I feel like I've been punched. I honestly feel like I've been punched in the stomach to interrupt

02:17something of such historic, national and patriotic importance, a totemic moment of vanquishing the

02:26Nazis, of survival in our darkest hour, of using the channel as an escape route from genuine terror,

02:34to get to the safety of Britain, to rebuild. I feel like I'm going to cry. Honestly, I feel like I'm going to

02:40cry to get back to Britain, to rebuild, to vanquish the Nazis. That commemoration being interrupted

02:46today because these bloody boats are in the channel and we're rescuing them. Our taxpayers are paying for

02:53this and that service being interrupted and desecrated.

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