Ministers were under pressure on Friday to stop thousands of Africans who stormed a Spanish territory from reaching the UK.
Spanish troops struggled to restore order after 60,000 migrants surged into Ceuta – a Spanish city on Morocco’s coast – by land and sea on Thursday.
The Conservatives and Reform UK called on ministers to take immediate action to strengthen Britain’s borders following the biggest ever one-day surge of illegal migrants into the EU.
Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel said some of those crossing would ‘inevitably try to make their way to the UK’.
Reform leader Nigel Farage warned: ‘Thousands of young men, lots
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