There’s still no serious long-term plan for halting the increase in Channel crossings, let alone stopping them completely

Starmer-Macron plan met with scepticism in Gravelines, where up to 300 people a day try to cross Channel

The prime minister and President Macron agreed a ‘one for one’ deal to swap small boat migrants for asylum seekers after negotiations this week

Hundreds of migrants have crossed the Channel this morning, dwarfing the number that could be sent back to France under Sir Keir Starmer’s new deal with Emmanuel Macron.

There’s still no serious long-term plan for halting the increase in Channel crossings, let alone stopping them completely

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The deal struck with Macron will be woefully inadequate to the task of combating the trade across the Channel