IN FULL | Shadow Home Secretary braves French migrant camp under threats of violence

Описание: Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp was pelted with glass bottles while visiting a migrant camp in northern France alongside Daily Express reporter Zak Garner-Purkis.

Footage of the attack showed the Conservative MP recounting the "pretty shocking" experience of being threatened with a knife inside the Dunkirk camp, before breaking into a run as glass began to shatter around him.

"They are throwing bottles at us," the Express' Investigations Editor said, before Mr Philp can be heard telling him: "Right, we've got to go."

Philp said he had been talking to a masked migrant when someone began "swinging a machete" behind him. "Clearly, he was doing it to send a message - it was a case of 'don't speak',"

Zak said, with Mr Philp adding: "To intimidate." The MP said he had been trying to speak to migrants in the camp to "find out more about what's happening on the ground" in France's response to the illegal migration crisis.

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