Small boats crisis risking community cohesion, Kemi Badenoch claims

Kemi Badenoch sits in the cab of a combine harvester during her visit to Hall Farm in Little Walden, Essex (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

The failure to stop migrants crossing the Channel in small boats is putting community cohesion at risk, Kemi Badenoch has claimed.

The Conservative leader also hit out at the deal the Government has struck with France to return migrants across the English Channel and insisted the Tories could not be held accountable for continued backlogs in the asylum system.