A laughing toddler in yellow wellies jumped in puddles outside one of Europe’s biggest shanty camps as he waited to set out for Britain this week. The dark-eyed three-year-old was about to join other children in taking a boat ride across the sea to escape life in a tent at the sprawling, squalid and overflowing migrant encampment on the outskirts of the French port of Dunkirk.
He is one of dozens and dozens of youngsters – including a baby – who have already arrived or will do so this weekend on traffickers’ boats at Dover thanks to improved weather in the
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