Anglo-French efforts to stop migrant boats from crossing the Channel are ‘clearly working’ Andy Burnham told Emmanuel Macron today as they held talks in London.
The Prime Minister said that ‘headway’ was being made on cutting both the number of people making the perilous journey and the number of overall crossings as he met the president in No10.
While the combined total number of crossings over the summer months has dropped to its lowest since 2019, smugglers appear to have started loading more people on to fewer, larger vessels.
The two leaders announced plans for a new ‘surge team’ of French police, funded by
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