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SAJID Javid was forced to call in the Navy to patrol the Channel because a Border Force ship he was relying on needs repairs.
The Home Secretary recalled HMC Valiant from an EU operation as rising numbers of migrants attempt to cross in small boats and dinghies.
But The Sun found the cutter is in a Greek shipyard near Athens, where it has been for two weeks.
It is unlikely to sail before the middle of the month.
Another, HMC Seeker, is in Gibraltar but a source said some crew had already been sent back to Britain to help — leaving too few to sail home.
On Wednesday Mr Javid visited HMC Searcher, the only Border Force cutter in UK waters.
A fourth cutter, HMC Protector, is still on EU patrol off the Greek island of Lesbos.
An official at Mytilene harbour said: “She’s been in and out but I can’t remember the last time she picked up any migrants.”
THE Home Secretary’s post-Brexit immigration plan has been branded the “longest suicide note” in Tory history.
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Lord Green of Migration Watch added Sajid Javid’s proposal to let any migrant come here for five years would send figures sky high.
Mr Javid asked for the Navy to help after a humiliating U-turn.
Government sources said the Home Office had finally agreed to pay for the use of the Royal Navy's HMS Mersey.
It came after a blistering row between Mr Javid and Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson over who should foot the vessel's £20,000 a day bill for helping the Border Force patrol the English Channel for migrant boats.
The high-tech vessel - equipped with a helicopter pad, rapid interception boats and advanced radar capabilities, sailed to the Dover Straits. It will be fully operational in the Channel from this morning.
Whitehall sources said HMS Mersey was being loaded with extra medical supplies and clothing for its new role.
It also emerged Theresa May ignored warnings and cut back aerial surveillance when she was Home Secretary.
Baroness Neville-Jones, a former top Home Office mandarin, said that in 2012 she urged Mrs May not to cancel a £4million contract the Government had with a private company to conduct the aerial surveillance.
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She told the BBC: “I did indeed write to the Home Secretary saying that I thought that it would be a false economy to end this particular contract but it was nevertheless ended.”
Baroness Neville-Jones said Mrs May had told her the surveillance could be done “in other ways”.
The former civil servant said: “I think what we needed then and I think what we need now is mixed capability of maritime and aerial and we need to take the fact of being an island rather seriously.”
The Home Office insisted the Border Force retains access to aerial surveillance by working with other government agencies.
HMS Valiant was discovered by The Sun in a shipyard near Athens where port sources said she was undergoing repairs to “make her fully seaworthy”.
Another cutter HMC Protector has been based in Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos since October and has been on regular patrols but barely picked up any migrants.
She is part of a joint European cooperation mission called Triton which is looking out for migrants in the Eastern Med.
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