Record migrants cross Channel

French memb ers of Parliament have b een accused of “putting around misconceptions” about life in the UK for undocumented migrants on small boats.

Answering questions from MPS on the home affairs committee, the Home Office’s new clandestine Channel threat commander Dan O’mahoney praised the work of French authorities in tack ling the migrant crisis acknowledged that migrants were being given false ideas of what it is to live in Britain undetected.

Questions were also raised over whether the Home Office will have any legal authority to return migrants to countries like France after the Brexit deadline of 31 December.

It comes after a record 416 migrants arrived in the UK on small boats on Wednesday, the most ever on a single day.