Calais migrants: Theresa May says ‘urgent work’ agreed

According to report, pressure is being brought to bear on Eurotunnel Channel Tunnel to ensure it rapidly installs the new fencing Britain has agreed to pay for.

The prime minister warned illegal immigrants would be removed from the UK, as migrants told the BBC they remained determined to reach Britain.

More than 3,500 have tried to get in and cross to the UK this week alone.

A few hundred migrants have tried once again to enter the Eurotunnel terminal in Calais, France, in week of chaotic attempts to get from continental Europe to Britain.

Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman said: “He should remember he is talking about people not insects and I don’t think it’s going to distract attention for him to just be trying to whip up hostility to those migrants in Calais when he should be sorting the situation out”.

There were wildly conflicting estimates of the people involved in Wednesday’s rush for the tunnel, from 150 to as many as 1,200. Many risk their lives in the process.

CHRISTIAN SALOME: (Through interpreter) It’s not a question of putting more barbed wire or fences.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said France will deploy 120 extra police officers in Calais, but added that operator Eurotunnel, which reported intercepting 37 000 migrants this year, “must also take responsibility” for improving security.

“But we do need to recognise the source of this problem, which is people crossing the Mediterranean in search of a better life”. “We need to protect our borders by working hand-in-glove with our neighbors the French, and that is exactly what we are doing”.

“Britain received 24,000”, said Mr Sutherland. Men and women, some hiding their faces beneath bandannas, walked single file to sneak over a bent fence along the train tracks leading to the tunnel and ultimately to England.

“We heard that one guy died and we know it’s very risky, but there is not another way to go the UK”, he said. Southern European nations such as Italy and Greece are not the only countries dealing with the crisis as the migrants head north. She said she wanted to travel to England to teach. He has pledged that the United Kingdom would “combat the crisis”.

Freight and passenger traffic through the rail tunnel has been severely disrupted in recent weeks as large numbers of migrants camped out in theCalais area have tried to board lorries travelling from France to Britain.

Eurotunnel said it had in fact doubled its security staff to close to 200 people since the start of the migrant crisis in the early 2000s and had spent more than 160 million euros on security during that time. In a tweet, Eurotunnel said passenger trains were delayed an hour because of the overnight activity.

“The least that could be done with Calais is to have a proper capacity there to assess whether the people and how many of them are refugees and therefore entitled to be retained”.

He also urged the government to build camps in the countries migrants were coming from so they could be “sent back in a kind and humane fashion”.

Nigel Farage, leader of Britain’s anti-EU UKIP party, said he was surprised no lorry drivers or tourists had been killed.