Migrant crisis: Macron 'facilitating a peaceful invasion of Britain' claims Tony Abbott in explosive intervention

“In Australia, we turned the boats around because in the end, if people can get here, they will be tempted to come here.

“I appreciate that France is a different country to Indonesia, and we were turning boats around back to Java.

"But to be honest, it's frankly an unfriendly act on the part of the French, not to police these camps better not to stamp out the people smuggling gangs better.

In a discussion with Camilla Tominey, he said: “If the French aren't prepared to do their job, if the French are prepared to at least part facilitate what at a sufficiently large scale starts to become a peaceful invasion, I think Britain must be prepared to say, ‘well, they're coming from France, they have no right to come from France.’

"The way is shut, we send them back.”

Asked about the Government’s policy on deportations: “I think they're on the right track.

"All credit to the British Government for getting this deal with Rwanda.

“But it's not much of a deal if you can actually get the people to take off and land in Rwanda.

“The British parliament is sovereign and I can't understand why the British Parliament has passed as hasn't passed a law removing the jurisdiction of this European tribunal over British policy.”

He added: “I think that there is a way forward.

"I think we need leaders with conviction and courage.

"We need to actually believe in our beliefs as opposed to paying them lip service.”