It is only a matter of time until there is a mass casualty in the Channel, the borders security chief has warned, as migrants hoping to come to the UK are crammed onto fewer bigger boats.
Major General Duncan Capps, the Home Office’s border security commander, told MPs on Wednesday that there are now double the normal amount of people in northern French camps waiting to make the perilous journey – with almost 3,800 across the two sites in Dunkirk and Calais.
