Healey slams ‘shocking’ scenes of smugglers picking up migrants ‘like a taxi’

A young child (face pixelated) is helped onto a small boat carrying a group of people thought to be migrants leaving the beach at Gravelines in France, in an attempt to reach the UK (Gareth Fuller/PA) - (PA Wire)

The Defence Secretary has pointed the finger at French authorities after “shocking” images of migrants being picked up by smugglers “like a taxi” to be brought to the UK.

Hundreds of migrants are thought to have crossed the English Channel in small boats on Saturday, with at least six boats spotted leaving beaches in France.