{"id":68293,"date":"2026-07-28T17:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/68293\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:00:35","slug":"not-credible-senior-tory-hits-out-at-french-explanation-after-warship-fired-shots-near-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/68293\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Not credible&#8217;: Senior Tory hits out at French explanation after warship &#8216;fired shots&#8217; near him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"&#039;Not credible&#039;: Senior Tory hits out at French explanation after warship &#039;fired shots&#039; near him\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3itF4vbyikI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8216;Not credible&#8217;: Senior Tory hits out at French explanation after warship &#8216;fired shots&#8217; near him<br \/>\n<br \/>\nChris Philp has suggested a French warship was trying to &#8220;intimidate&#8221; him by firing &#8220;live rounds&#8221; while he was on a boat in the English Channel.<\/p>\n<p>He has also accused the French of firing &#8220;live rounds to defend their waters against a visiting British politician&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Prefecture maritime Manche mer du Nord said French Navy units &#8220;conduct regular training exercises&#8221; and that &#8220;individual combat training is part of the normal activities of a vessel on operations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/politics-latest-andy-burnham-keir-starmer-labour-12593360<\/p>\n<p>#uk #politics #frenchwarship #englishchannel #skynews <\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>Why not listen to one of our podcasts? This is Why, available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/thisiswhy or Ed Conway&#8217;s Stuff Matters, available here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/stuff-matters<\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Not credible&#8217;: Senior Tory hits out at French explanation after warship &#8216;fired shots&#8217; near him Chris Philp has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[7666,8788,4415,19390,50,36297,57024,247,15827,296,4750,279,229],"class_list":["post-68293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-boat","tag-chris-philp","tag-conservative-party","tag-english-channel","tag-france","tag-french-navy","tag-french-warship","tag-politics","tag-shots","tag-sky-news","tag-tory-party","tag-uk","tag-warship"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116998727409312741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}