The ever-increasing hardening of the UK’s borders is a boon for the far-right. By borrowing the language, logic, and cruelty of Reform UK, ministers are not neutralising Nigel Farage’s views, they are legitimising them, says Labour MP Olivia Blake T his morning’s headlines were dominated by the news of French police using large nets to stop small boats crossing the English Channel . This marks the next step in an ever-increasing hardening of the UK’s borders. I’ve been to Calais, and seen at