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A new deal struck between the UK and France to curb the number of people crossing the Channel in small boats has been announced. It involves the UK paying £8 million more to France to increase surveillance and enforcement, mainly on the French coast.

Albanians are now the biggest single nationality arriving in the UK by crossing the Channel, with 12,000 making the journey so far this year.

The Prime Minister faced questions from some of his own MPs over the latest agreement.

Critics have accused the Government of ‘recycling the same failed response’.

Again and again, the government has put optics above effectiveness, says journalist Diane Taylor

Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, said the deal fails to address the factors behind people choosing to put themselves at risk.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said a new deal with France to tackle illegal migration across the Channel would "make a difference", but the numbers making the perilous crossing would not go down overnight.

New agreement is the eighth deal struck with France aiming to combat clandestine migration since 2015, yet Channel crossings have rocketed

The London Mayor told Times Radio the Government’s tough rhetoric was ‘clearly not working by itself’.