The section leaders privation Paris to renegotiate the 2003 Le Touquet Treaty
- Jack Elsom, Chief Political Correspondent
- Published: 23:32, 22 Nov 2024
- Updated: 23:32, 22 Nov 2024
MAYORS successful France privation to rip up a cardinal borderline woody with Britain arsenic they accidental it is brushed connected amerciable migration.
The 14-strong Opal Coast radical accused UK politicians of making noises astir stopping boats but not doing capable to deter them.
Calais politician Natacha Bouchart said: “People speech of a borderline but successful information it doesn’t beryllium due to the fact that the British authorities judge each the migrants who arrive. Enough is enough.”
The section leaders privation Paris to renegotiate the 2003 Le Touquet Treaty that allows UK and French officials to beryllium successful the different nation’s port.
The thought is that if nary UK officials are successful Calais, migrants could transverse the Channel without needing gangs, with France each but escaped of the problem.
They besides privation Sir Keir Starmer to toughen enforcement connected amerciable arrivals, who tin “find a occupation and enactment there”.
No 10 denied being soft, portion the PM vowed helium was “targeting the gangs”.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper admitted: “We bash request stronger enactment connected amerciable moving successful the UK.”
But she said enforcement raids are up by a 5th since the election, with 10,000-plus illegal migrants deported.