Ministers want France to intercept more migrant boats in the Channel and could withhold cash to ensure a £480m deal with Paris to curb crossings is providing value for money, theipaper understands
were also detected making the journey from France across Thursday to Saturday last week according to provisional Home Office figures, although there were no recorded crossings on Sunday.reported frustration among ministers that France is doing too little to stop crossings compared to Belgium, which the newspaper said has almost succeeded in stopping crossings from its shoreline.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman also suggested that all the money had not yet been given to France and that the next tranche of funding would be dependent on whether the cash is being used successfully.
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