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Britain’s government promised new measures on Monday to crack down on illegal immigrants by making landlords evict them, as the Calais migrants crisis continued to dominate the headlines.

Calling for the erection of a British-run detention centre in northern France for thousands of migrants looking to make their way across the Channel, he wrote on the Daily Mirror website: “The mess in Calais is down to years of soft-minded liberalism and utter naivety”.

Nightly attempts by large groups of the estimated 5,000 migrants in Calais to force their way through the rail tunnel linking France and Britain have provoked public outcry and severely disrupted the flow of goods between the two countries.

Sky’s Lisa Holland has spoken to a 17-year-old migrant from Ethiopia who is among hundreds who have crossed from France in recent days, risking their lives to climb aboard trains and lorries heading to Britain.

On Friday evening, Downing Street said the prime minister and Mr Hollande had “both expressed concern about the immediate security challenges and reiterated their commitment to continue working closely together to tackle the problems”.

As British Prime Minister David Cameron is trying to negotiate new terms regarding UK’s membership in the European Union, Bertrand agreed with May, insisting it is a European issue that needs a European solution.

Some attempt to stow away on lorries headed for the Eurotunnel, or climb or cut security fences to try to hide on Eurotunnel shuttles.

There has been criticism from some circles in the UK that the government has failed to control the situation adequately.

Sweden’s justice and migration minister Morgan Johansson said the situation in Calais showed “a system that is breaking down” and to ld the BBC that Britain was not taking “the responsibility that they should”.

Ultimately, the long-term answer to this problem lies in reducing the number of migrants crossing into Europe from Africa. “In future, landlords will be required to ensure that the people they rent their properties to are legally entitled to be in the country”.

He said: “I think we have got a grip on the crisis”.

The ministers said the addition of 120 police officers and other security measures around the Calais terminal had led to a fall in the number of refugees gaining access to the tunnel.

It also emerged that some teenage migrants who have fled across the Channel to Britain are being driven by private taxi to temporary accommodation outside of Kent at a cost of up to £150.

Britain is to fund an extra 100 border guards at the Channel tunnel terminal on the French side, the foreign secretary Philip Hammond has announced, as he said the government has “got a grip” on the Calais migrant crisis.