French police must stop migrant boat launches

SIR – A French gendarme vehicle was photographed on the beach at Wimereux yesterday as migrants launched an inflatable.

It is a sad reflection on our current relationship with the French authorities when this is what they are being paid by us to stop.

It is time, for the sake of everyone, including migrants and the emergency services, to insist on interception of such craft before they enter the sea. Susan Barlow

Little Bookham, Surrey

SIR – Why has it taken the tragic deaths in French waters of would-be migrants for the Prime Minister to call a Cobra meeting, when over 25,000 have successfully been welcomed to Britain by the Government this year? The horse has bolted.

John Pritchard

Ingatestone, Essex

SIR – I read this week that there will soon be about 100,000 British children seeking foster homes and adoption.

Now I hear that the Government is forcing councils to house unaccompanied migrant children. Something is not right.

Peter H York

Daventry, Northamptonshire

SIR – Instead of demonising these men, women and children who want a better life for themselves, they could be given sanctuary and solve our labour problems as well.

When Angela Merkel allowed Syrian refugees into Germany, she was castigated. But it appears that this policy has worked, because desperate people will pay their host country back in so many ways.

Judith A Daniels

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk