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“They both expressed concern about the immediate security challenges and reiterated their commitment to continue working closely together to tackle the problems posed by illegal migration”, a Downing Street spokesperson said.

Options to relieve chronic traffic back-ups on the M20 motorway are being considered but specific locations to hold trucks unable to pass through the Tunnel are yet to be confirmed.

Numerous migrants originate from Syria and Iraq, where people say they are trying to escape the four-year civil war, starvation and human rights abuses. “The UK government is being very careful to ensure they don’t come to Britain and then the country responsible...

Conservative MP for Folkestone, Damian Collins, said: “This investment is very welcome, it doesn’t address the whole problem”.

Drivers say they now have to run the gauntlet of intimidation and threatening behaviour from desperate migrants who try to break in to the back of their container lorries bound for the United Kingdom.