Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Minutes before the session was due to start, the Home Affairs Committee tweeted: “This morning …
Priti Patel has refused to set a new target for reducing illegal migrant crossings to an "infrequent phenomenon.” Despite aiming to eradicate the migrants by Spring this year when she became Home Secretary, she said she would not set a target date, adding that crossings were a "complicated issue" and the English Channel has become "far too viable for criminals". …