Sending refugees to Rwanda is tough, but it isn’t sensible
Immigration has long been a toxic political issue. Recently, the rise of the National Front, and then the BNP, was mirrored across Europe. Today, in the UK,…
Navy sends four boats to the Channel during first ‘red day’ in charge
In a speech at Lydd airport in Kent announcing the move, Mr Johnson said the aim was to ensure that “no boat makes it to the UK…
Until Brexit is complete, Britain will never solve its Channel crisis
The escalation of the Channel crisis over the last two years has prompted ever more dramatic statements from the Home Secretary, Priti Patel. From sending in the…
Priti Patel plan for Navy to tackle Channel migrants ‘has failed before it started’, say MPs
However, the policy has yet to be formally unveiled and has been bedevilled by friction between the Home Office and the MoD over whether the Navy will…
Brexit isn’t ‘done’ until Boris solves the Channel crisis
If you are one of the 17.4 million people who voted Leave in the 2016 referendum, the second anniversary of the UK departing the EU will have…
Record number of Channel migrants landing on Christmas Day
A record number of migrants including young children landed at Dover on Christmas Day after crossing the English Channel as people smugglers took advantage of the mild…
Priti Patel to leave migrants ‘in limbo’ by scrapping six-month deadline for asylum decisions
Asylum seekers could face longer in migration limbo as Priti Patel has refused to set a time limit for responding to their applications in her new border…
The Border Force can end this crisis, but only with new powers
Illegal immigration from France is not a new phenomenon. There’s been a pressure to emigrate from mainland Europe to Britain for many years. I was in the…
Channel migrant disaster: ‘My wife was on the boat. I tracked the GPS … then it disappeared’
Charles Devos, a French lifeboatman who was one of the first people to arrive at the scene of Wednesday’s tragedy, said: “It was a bit like the…
On a day of sorrow, Parliament’s pantomime villain still manages to cause a stir
Priti Patel addressed the Commons in miserable circumstances, following the biggest single loss of life in the Channel since the migrant crisis began. “There are no simple…