MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Border controls are a necessary part of any civilised state
Tory MPs from the former Red Wall seats seized from Labour in 2019 have begun to revolt against the Government’s obsession with the COP26 conference on global warming. They want Ministers to turn their minds instead to the alarming rise in illegal migration across the Channel. Criminal people traffickers, more confident by the day, are now smuggling so many men and women across the Strait of Dover that the known daily total recently reached 1,185. Tory MPs want Ministers to turn their minds instead to the alarming rise in illegal migration across the Channel. The remarks made by the outgoing head of Border Force, which we report today, suggest a high-level unwillingness to grasp that proper frontier control is a necessary part of any civilised state.
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